Hyderabad:Â The Telangana Police Particular Investigation Group (SIT) on Monday, January 19, issued a discover to Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Harish Rao to seem earlier than the Jubilee Hills Police Station in Hyderabad on Tuesday, January 20, in reference to a cellphone tapping case through which the then Ok Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR)-led BRS authorities has been accused of utilizing police equipment to watch the cellphone conversations of Opposition leaders throughout the 2023 Telangana Meeting elections.
Harish Rao, the Siddipet MLA, should seem earlier than the police at 11 am on Tuesday, a letter by the P Venkatagiri, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Jubilee Hills division, mentioned. The nine-member SIT, comprising senior officers, is headed by Hyderabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar.
The summons got here after the Supreme Court docket on January 5 dismissed a petition filed by the Telangana authorities towards Harish Rao, difficult the primary info report (FIR) filed towards him within the case. The highest courtroom declined to intervene within the orders given by the Telangana Excessive Court docket, which dominated in his favour, even because it declined to overturn the excessive courtroom’s selections.
Responding to the discover issued to Harish Rao, former minister S Niranjan Reddy alleged that the Congress authorities is misusing energy and harassing BRS leaders.
Alleging that the police equipment is dancing to the tunes of the Congress authorities, he claimed in a launch that police officers should pay a worth in future for his or her motion.
Former Telangana intelligence chief T Prabhakar Rao, the prime accused within the case, was earlier questioned by the SIT.Â
What’s the cellphone tapping case?
The case started after Siddipet resident Chakradhar Goud filed a criticism with the Punjagutta Police, alleging that his cellphone was tapped by Harish Rao with the involvement of then DCP Radha Kishan Rao. Following the criticism, the police registered an FIR.
It was half of a bigger case the place the then BRS authorities was accused of working a secret intelligence unit to profile over 600 folks, together with the politicians, judges, actors, and different rivals.
Over 1 lakh cellphone calls have been allegedly e tapped. Those that have been reportedly monitored included Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, members of the Bhartiya Janata Occasion (BJP), the Congress, and even some BRS leaders.
The unit additionally allegedly used this information to extort crores of rupees from native businessmen. When the federal government modified, a legal case was registered, and the officers panicked, destroying 17 arduous drives and dumping them into the Musi river to bury the proof.Â
