Former Telangana Intelligence Bureau chief T Prabhakhar Rao has been named as the primary accused within the cellphone tapping case. It has been alleged that the telephones of the opposition leaders had been illegally tapped on the orders of Prabhakhar Rao in the course of the former BRS authorities led by Chandrashekhar Rao.
Two extra superintendents of police have additionally been arrested by Hyderabad Police in reference to the case of cellphone tapping case and destroying sure laptop programs and official information.
As per an official launch from Hyderabad police late Saturday evening, Further Deputy Commissioner of Police Thirupathanna and Further Superintendent of Police N Bhujanga Rao have been arrested.
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The 2 police officers, who earlier labored as extra superintendents of police within the Particular Intelligence Bureau (SIB) and Intelligence Division respectively, had been remanded in judicial custody on Sunday.
In the meantime, the police issued a lookout round (LOC) towards Prabhakar Rao after which deputy commissioner of police of Commissioner’s Job Drive (a wing of Hyderabad Police) P Radhakrishna and a senior government of a Telugu TV channel.
The lookout round was issued towards them as they weren’t out there for investigation within the case and had been allegedly not cooperating.
As per reviews, Rao is suspected to have gone overseas and is within the US.
The 2 extra SPs had been accused of colluding with suspended DSP of the SIB D Praneeth Rao, who was earlier arrested by Hyderabad police for allegedly erasing the intelligence data from numerous digital devices in addition to for alleged cellphone tapping.
Throughout questioning, the 2 police officers confessed to their involvement within the reported crimes, together with conspiracy to watch non-public individuals illegally by growing their profiles, abusing their official positions and destroying public property to hide their involvement in collusion, the assertion stated.
On March 13, Praneeth Rao, who’s accused of growing profiles of unknown individuals and monitoring them clandestinely, with out authorisation and illegally, apart from destroying sure laptop programs and official information, was arrested, police earlier stated.
Praneeth Rao was not too long ago suspended by the Telangana authorities. He was a DSP in the course of the earlier BRS dispensation and was subsequently working within the workplace of the Director Normal of Police (DGP). He was earlier accused of tapping telephones of opposition get together leaders.
Based mostly on a grievance filed by an extra superintendent of police of the SIB on March 10, a case was registered towards Praneeth Rao and others at Panjagutta police station right here on fees of prison breach of belief by a public servant, inflicting disappearance of proof, and prison conspiracy and different sections of IPC, PDPP Act and IT Act-2000, as per PTI.