WP.Nos.5466 & 5470 of 2020 telephone records are illegal and it was carried out without any sanction whatsoever and in arbitrary manner. Based on the aforesaid order of interception, the petitioners’ telephone conversation have been tapped and in pursuant to which a criminal case was registered as against the petitioners and the same has been culminated in trial in CC.No.25 of 2016 on the file of the IX Additional Session Special Judge for CBI cases, Chennai, in which the petitioners are arrayed as A4 and A5. Thereafter, the respondent also lodged complaint under form I of the Chartered Accounts Act, 1949. On receipt of the complaint, the Institute of Chartered Accounts of India issued letter dated 26.09.2016. Therefore, the implication of the criminal case against the petitioners herein based on the illegal and unconstitutional impugned order is immense and tantamount to an abuse of process of court and law. The petitioners have been harassed with criminal proceedings based on the illegal records and as such the consequential proceedings cannot be allowed to carry on in the absence of a conclusive determination regarding the illegality of the impugned order. 5. Per contra, Mr.K.Srinivasan, the learned Special Public Prosecutor filed counter and submitted that the order impugned in this writ petition was made with complete application of mind taking into consideration http://www.judis.nic.in 6/22