Overview

• The Special Investigation Team has issued summons to Malkajgiri MP Etala Rajendar and other senior BJP leaders to record their statements in the phone-tapping case dating to K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s tenure.
• Union minister Bandi Sanjay has indicated he will voluntarily appear before the SIT for questioning.
• Medchal Congress leader Singireddy Harivardhan Reddy told investigators his mobile calls were intercepted and used to justify multiple detentions ahead of the 2023 Assembly elections.
• The Telangana Martyrs Family Members Association submitted a representation accusing State Intelligence Bureau officers of intercepting relatives’ phones during their 2018 protests.
• The expanded questioning follows a May admission by a former police official that phone surveillance was conducted on orders from the previous BRS government.