Hyderabad: The Special Investigation Team probing the Telangana Phone Tapping case on Thursday, January 29, issued a notice to Bharat Rashtra Samithi President K Chandrashekhar Rao asking him to appear for questioning on Friday, January 30.
According to reports, the SIT is likely to question KCR at his Erravalli farmhouse in Siddipet where he is currently staying instead of Jubilee Hills police station in Hyderabad.
The SIT had previously questioned BRS Working President KT Rama Rao, Siddipet MLA Harish Rao and formr BRS MP Joginpally Santosh Rao in connection with the phone tapping case.
Phone Tapping case
The phone-tapping case pertains to accusations against the BRS government of surveilling phone conversations of over 600 people, including Opposition leaders, judges, journalists, actors, and others under its ten-year rule and during the 2023 Telangana Assembly Elections. Over 1 lakh phone calls were allegedly e-tapped.
Those who were reportedly monitored included Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, members of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress, and even some BRS leaders.
The case came to light soon after the Congress took over and the first FIR was lodged on March 10, 2024.
Former Telangana intelligence chief T Prabhakar Rao, the prime accused in the case, was earlier questioned by the SIT.
A suspended DSP of Telangana Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) was among four police officials who have been arrested by Hyderabad Police since March 2024 for allegedly erasing the intelligence information from various electronic gadgets as well as for alleged phone-tapping during the previous BRS regime. They were subsequently granted bail.
