are planning to depose before the standing committee on itopposition leaders have claimed that they have also been targeted by illicit surveillance whatsapp has denied that there were any politician figures on the list of those targeted by nsoaccording to reddy there were enough safeguards and a review mechanism against the misuse of interception powers prescribed in the indian telegraph rules it procedure and safeguards for interception monitoring and decryption of information rules and sops issued for the purpose he said interception was approved strictly on a casetocase basis by the competent authority and each approval was reviewed by a committee chaired by the cabinet secretary or state chief secretarywatch shashi tharoor headed parliamentary panel to take up whatsapp snooping case today