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Telangana Phone-Tapping Inquiry Deepens With New Summons and Device Dispute

SIT seeks to question former intelligence chief on June 19, with ACB issuing contested demands for BRS leaders’ personal devices.

Y.S. Sharmila during a protest in Visakhapatnam in May | ANI file
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TPCC chief said his phone number was among those tapped during the tenure of the BRS regime (File photo)
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Overview

  • The Special Investigation Team is probing allegations that over 600 phone lines belonging to politicians, journalists and business figures were tapped under the previous BRS government.
  • TPCC president B. Mahesh Kumar Goud appeared before the SIT on June 17 as a witness and urged stringent punishment for those involved in the surveillance.
  • Former SIB chief T. Prabhakar Rao has been summoned to testify on June 19 after admitting he formed a team to carry out political phone-tapping operations.
  • BRS working president K. T. Rama Rao served a legal notice to Goud over the tapping allegations and formally objected to ACB demands for his personal mobile phones and laptops, calling the notice a violation of his rights.
  • Andhra Pradesh Congress chief Y.S. Sharmila alleged a joint phone-tapping scheme by K. Chandrasekhar Rao and her brother Jagan Mohan Reddy targeting her and her associates, and she has offered to cooperate with any investigation.