A former DCP and a police officer were questioned on a phone-tapping case in Telangana
On Thursday, a former Commissioner’s Task Force DCP and a different law enforcement officer were questioned on a phone tapping case and the deletion of official digital data from government records.
The individuals are charged with damaging computer systems and official data in addition to reportedly monitoring opposition leaders’ phones at the government of Bharat Rashtra Samithi.
Even as the Congress and BJP claimed their phones had been tapped, BRS working president KT Rama Rao asked Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy to initiate an investigation.
Two other superintendents of police were detained earlier on suspicion of working along with Praneeth Rao, a suspended DSP of the SIB.
Rao is charged with conducting unauthorized phone tapping while serving in the previous Telangana administration, as well as wiping out intelligence data from electronic equipment.
The police issued a watch circular as part of the investigation against the previous head of the SIB, T Prabhakar Rao, the deputy commissioner of police at the time, P Radhakrishna, and a senior executive of a Telugu TV station. They could have fled the nation and are accused of not assisting with the inquiry.
The Telangana government has suspended Praneeth Rao, who had previously served as a DSP and then as the Director General of Police’s office. He has been charged with listening in on opposition party leaders’ phones.
A case for criminal breach of trust, causing the loss of evidence, criminal conspiracy, and other charges has been brought against Praneeth Rao and others based on a complaint made by an additional superintendent of police from the Special Intelligence Bureau.
Praneeth Rao was reportedly taken into custody by the police on March 13. They said that he had erased some computer systems and official data, made profiles of unknown individuals, and surreptitiously and illegally monitored them.
In addition to the unlawful gathering of intelligence data, the complaint concerns the purported deletion of computer systems and official SIB data.
