Telangana Phone Tapping Case: Hyderabad Police Chargesheet Names High-Ranking Officers
In a major development in the Telangana phone tapping case, the Hyderabad police have filed a chargesheet against six individuals, including suspended police officers. The chargesheet alleges that more than 1,200 phones were illegally tapped and that the accused attempted to destroy evidence by damaging storage devices.
The arrested individuals include a suspended DSP from the Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB), two Additional Superintendents of Police, and a former Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP). They were arrested on March 13 for allegedly deleting intelligence data from various electronic devices and engaging in phone tapping during the previous BRS administration.
The chargesheet, filed under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), PDPP Act, and IT Act-2000, also names former SIB chief T Prabhakar Rao and another currently absconding individual. The accused are alleged to have unlawfully developed profiles of multiple people and secretly monitored them within the SIB. They allegedly used this information to benefit a political party at the request of certain individuals and conspired to destroy records to eliminate evidence of their crimes.
The investigation revealed that former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao allegedly aimed to leverage the “BRS MLAs” poaching case to compel the BJP into a compromise, seeking to quash the ED case against his daughter, MLC K Kavitha. This information came from the purported confession of a former DCP, one of the arrested suspects in the phone-tapping case.
The case has sent shockwaves through Telangana and raised serious questions about the integrity of law enforcement agencies. The ongoing investigation is expected to shed more light on the extent of the phone tapping and the involvement of other individuals in the scandal.
