Don't waste time on office bugging issue, FM tells media

New Delhi, June 22 (PTI) As a controversy erupted over
reported attempts of bugging his office, Indian Finance
Minister Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday asked the media not to
waste time on "bogus things".
"All these are bogus things. Don't waste your time on
this," he shot back at reporters who sought replies on his
statement Tuesday that the Intelligence Bureau (IB) found
nothing in alleged bugging of his offices.
Reported bugging of the offices of the minister and
his aides in North Block, in the Indian capital city New
Delhi, has raised the hackles of those in government and
Opposition parties have demanded an investigation, calling it
a serious issue.
"In respect of news item regarding bugging in my
office, the IB investigated into it and found there is nothing
in it," Mukherjee had said Tuesday.
Describing the reported bugging as "India's
Watergate", Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha (lower
house of Indian Parliament) Sushma Swaraj had sought to know
if the government was spying on its own minister or a
corporate house was doing so.