The state government will soon regulate private detective agencies that have mushroomed across Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra. Home minister RR Patil told the legislative assembly that the state government would soon make a legal provision to make registration of detective agencies mandatory. He also assured criminal action against the heads of cell phone service providers if their company employees were found to have helped detective agencies with call records. “This law will fix responsibility and also decide the nature of investigation or detective work that these agencies can undertake,” he said.
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