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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-28062025-264217
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II-Section 3-Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 382]
NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2025/ASHADHA 6, 1947
4239 GI/2025
(1)
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS
(Department of Telecommunications)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 27th June, 2025
G.S.R. 425(E).— The following draft rules, to amend the Telecommunications
(Procedures and Safeguards for Lawful Interception of Messages) Rules, 2024, which the Central
Government proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (a) of sub-section (2)
and sub-section (4) of section 20 read with clauses (t) and (u) of sub-section (2) of section 56 of
the Telecommunications Act, 2023 (44 of 2023), are hereby published for the information of all
persons likely to be affected thereby and notice is given that the said draft rules shall be taken into
consideration after the expiry of thirty days from the date on which copies of this notification as
published in the Gazette of India, are made available to the public;
Objections or suggestions, if any, may be addressed to the Joint Secretary (Telecom),
Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, Government of India, Sanchar
Bhawan, 20, Ashoka Road, New Delhi- 110001;
The objections or suggestions which may be received from any person in respect of the said
draft rules before the expiry of the aforesaid period shall be taken into consideration by the Central
Government.
1. Short title and commencement. – (1) These rules may be called the Telecommunications
(Procedures and Safeguards for Lawful Interception of Messages) Amendment Rules, 2025.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Telecommunications (Procedures and Safeguards for Lawful Interception of
Messages) Rules, 2024, for item (c) in rule 2, the following item shall be substituted, namely:-
"(c) "competent authority” means, as the case may be,
(i) the Union Home Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs in the case of the
Central Government, or
(ii) the Secretary to the State Government in charge of the Home Department in the
case of a State Government, or
(iii) the Union Home Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Central
Government, on the request made by the Secretary in-charge of the Home
Department of the State Government for interception by that State Government
beyond its territorial jurisdiction.”
[F.No. 24-06/2024-UBB]
DEVENDRA KUMAR RAI, Jt. Secy.
Note: The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3,
sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 754(E) dated the 6th December, 2024.
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and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054.
SARVESH KUMAR Digitally signed by SARVESH
SRIVASTAVA Date: 2025.06.28 16:46:47