Telangana Phone-Tapping Case Ex DCP, Police Official Interrogated

In Telangana, a former DCP and another police official were questioned by the police on Thursday in connection with a phone tapping case and destroying certain computer systems and official data. The former DCP was part of the Commissioner’s Task Force, a wing of Hyderabad Police. DSP of the Special Intelligence Bureau, D Praneeth Rao was earlier this month suspended and arrested on charges of developing profiles of several persons and monitoring them secretly, without authorisation and illegally. He was accused of erasing intelligence information from various electronic gadgets as well as phone tapping during the previous BRS government. Two additional superintendents of police besides a few others were also arrested on charges of colluding with Praneeth Rao.
Based on a complaint filed by an additional superintendent of police of the SIB, a case was registered against Praneeth Rao and others at Panjagutta police station in Hyderabad earlier during this month on charges of criminal breach of trust by a public servant, causing the disappearance of evidence, and criminal conspiracy and other sections of IPC and IT Act-2000.The police had also issued a lookout circular against former SIB chief T Prabhakar Rao and then deputy commissioner of police at the Commissioner’s Task Force P Radhakrishna and a senior executive of a Telugu TV channel. The lookout circular was issued against them as they were not available for investigation in the case and were allegedly not cooperating