Overview
- Former SIB chief T. Prabhakar Rao appeared for a fifth round of questioning and refused to provide details, prompting investigators to draft a court report seeking custodial interrogation
- Union Minister of State Bandi Sanjay Kumar has been summoned as a witness after the SIT confirmed that his phone and those of close aides were tapped during the BRS government
- Investigators allege that Rao formed a Special Operations Team within the SIB to carry out unauthorized surveillance on opposition politicians, journalists, businesspersons, and judges
- Bandi Sanjay Kumar has demanded that former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and his son K. T. Rama Rao be summoned in connection with the case and has called for a CBI probe
- Four police officers previously arrested in the phone-tapping case were granted bail and the SIT continues to probe possible directives from senior BRS officials