The telecom operators are not permitted to record the actual phone conversations and save them on their servers. Only those calls can be recorded which are allowed to be intercepted by competent authorities authorized under the Telegraph Act, 1885, or under the Information Technology Act, 2000. And, nowadays, most of such calls also may be directly intercepted and recorded by the concerned authorities, such as law enforcement agencies, instead of the telecom service providers doing it on their behalf.
Therefore, it may not be possible to obtain actual call recordings from the telecom operators.
However, the telecom operators maintain call record details, i.e., merely the details of the incoming and outgoing phone numbers, date/time/duration of the call, etc. (but not the actual phone conversations). Usually, the telecom service providers are not supposed to provide call record details to private parties; they supply such information only to police and other law enforcement agencies and may be under court orders. You may request your telecom service provider for call record details of your own mobile phone and they may perhaps give that to you.
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