Hyderabad: The city police has urged the CBI to issue a red corner notice against the former chief of special intelligence bureau in Telangana T Prabhakar Rao who is a key accused in the phone tapping case.
On March 13, the Hyderabad police arrested the suspended DSP of the special intelligence bureau (SIB), two additional SPs and a former deputy commissioner of police (DCP) accused of erasing intelligence information from electronic gadgets as well as for alleged phone tapping during the previous BRS regime.
Rao and another accused who is a journalist are absconding and are suspected to be in the US. The Hyderabad commissioner of police Kothakotta Sreenivas Reddy on Saturday said that he met the CBI director recently and sought the red corner notice.
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“The case will go ahead once the main people are arrested and they are now absconding. We have written to the US Consul General also that they (the accused) are misusing the other country’s visas. We are hopeful in the coming days…,” the Hyderabad Police chief told reporters. He said it (red corner notice) is under process and “we want to expedite it.”
Reacting to a query if the police were contemplating issuing notices to political leaders as part of investigation into the case, the Commissioner said, “As the case progresses…definitely.”
Prabhakar Rao has been accused of forming a “Special Operations Team” under the suspended DSP within the SIB to carry out certain specific tasks related to political surveillance to benefit the then ruling BRS and its leaders.
The retired police officer, who is in the US for ‘medical treatment’, had recently denied the allegations made against him and termed them as “wild and false”.
The suspended DSP and his team developed profiles of hundreds of people, intercepted phone calls of several persons, police said.
The arrested persons along with others have been accused of developing profiles of several persons in an unauthorised manner and monitoring them clandestinely and illegally in SIB and using them in a partisan manner to favour a political party at the behest of some persons and also conspiracy in destroying the records to cause disappearance of evidence of their crimes, police earlier said.
