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Hyderabad: The investigation into the tapping of phones belonging to several political leaders and others ahead of the 2023 Assembly elections in Telangana has widened, with officers of the Special Investigation Team claiming that call data records (CDR) and internet protocol data records (IPDR) of thousands were also accessed illegally by the police\u2019s Special Intelligence Branch (SIB) at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have evidence to prove that surveillance mechanisms were illegally used to extort money through electoral bonds,\u201d an SIT source claimed.<\/p>\n
Reports said police will now file a supplementary chargesheet in the case because of \u201cfresh evidence\u201d and \u201cnew information\u201d received based on \u201crevelations\u201d by the accused.<\/p>\n
Those accused in the tapping case are former SIB chief T Prabhakar Rao, inews man\u00adaging dir\u00adector Aruvela Shravan Kumar Rao, Deputy Superintendent of Police D Praneeth Rao, Addi\u00adtional Superintend\u00adents of Police M Thirupathanna and N Bhu\u00adjanga Rao, former Superintendent of Police P Radhak\u00adishan Rao, and a TV channel owner, A Shravan Kumar Rao.<\/p>\n
The case refers to the period when the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government, under the lead\u00adership of then chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, was in power. In recent days, the SIT probing the case has called some members of KCR\u2019S family for questioning.<\/p>\n
The first to be called was former minister Har\u00adish Rao, who is KCR\u2019S nephew, and the next was KCR\u2019S son and former minister K Taraka Rama Rao (KTR). On Tuesday, the SIT questioned J Santosh Rao, a former MP and another nephew of KCR.<\/p>\n
BRS in a statement said that the SIT notices were issued as an \u201cattention diversion\u201d tactic, and that there was no evidence against any member of the BRS in this \u201cfalse case\u201d.<\/p>\n
Allegations of phone tapping first surfaced in March 2024, when an Additional Superintendent of Police of the SIB lodged a complaint at Hyderabad\u2019s Punjagutta police station, accusing DSP Praneeth Rao of using illegal means to gather intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hyderabad: The investigation into the tapping of phones belonging to several political leaders and others ahead of the 2023 Assembly elections in Telangana has widened, with officers of the Special Investigation Team claiming that call data records (CDR) and internet protocol data records (IPDR) of thousands were also accessed illegally by the police\u2019s Special Intelligence …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":193669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t