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The purpose of the non-disclosure sections of this law is to prevent the suspect being wiretapped (or similar) knowing that they're being wiretapped.

It's not exactly very useful if someone under active investigation finds out that they're being watched, and changes their communications behaviour as a result.

In this case, it wouldn't need to be applied as the suspect is dead.

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Unfortunately your conjectures are not in the bill; what is in the bill is broad and vaguely worded as to what applies (just about any security related request), but very precise and forceful about what is not allowed to be communicated (nothing is allowed to be said about the request; ever).

If you read the Parliamentary Commission's criticisms of the IPBill, it looks like the spy agencies intend to use a lot of "bulk collection" capabilities, even with "targeted" warrants, which means there will be more than one person "wiretapped" at any given time.

So in practical terms, this will never be disclosed because everyone will be wiretapped, and disclosing it would mean "endangering the wiretap".

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