Overview
- Rao must surrender before ACP P. Venkatgiri at Jubilee Hills Police Station in Hyderabad by 11:00 a.m. Friday, with questioning to be conducted in accordance with law and with access to home-cooked food and regular medication.
- A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan modified earlier protection and kept his anticipatory bail plea pending rather than dismissing it.
- The state told the court that only two of five iCloud accounts were reset, that opened accounts contained no data, that some email addresses would not open, and that Apple logged activity on the accounts before his appearance.
- Solicitor General Tushar Mehta alleged premature destruction of electronic evidence, including claims that hard disks were destroyed and dumped in a river.
- Rao’s counsel argued any deletions followed Review Committee protocols for sensitive information as the case examines alleged unlawful surveillance under the previous BRS government, with the petition next listed for December 19.