Woman fights move to search her phone

By Alice Osii
A woman who claimed the privacy of her phone was breached by her husband has filed an application to have the search warrant of her phone revoked by the Committal Court in Waigani.
Lina Pu’u Wam presented her application to magistrate Cosmas Bidar yesterday.
In her submission, Wam claimed her husband had suspected her of seeing another man five weeks ago.
She said he went ahead and obtained her bank statements as well as a court order and search warrant without her consent.
He also obtained her call logs from Digicel.
Wam claimed on previous occasions, her husband had threatened to kill her.
She is now making an application to have the search warrant issued by the court on June 29 to Digicel against her phone number be stayed or revoked.
Bidar adjourned the matter to July 25 for ruling.
In response to the application, the prosecution stated that the application sought by Wam:
l Was interfering with investigations because police had obtained a search warrant through court;
l was a breach of process and not a proper party to the proceedings as to the nature of the police investigations pending; and,
l Did not follow proper procedure to file the notice of motion dated July 13.
The prosecution requested for the matter to be dismissed by the court and that Wam be retrained from interfering with ongoing police investigations.
Bidar told police and Wam that a search warrant was only issued when the court was satisfied that a matter was worth investigating.
He also said that when the court granted a search warrant, it also had power to revoke it.