HYDERABAD: The previous Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi govt in Telangana led by K Chandrasekhar Rao had got the phones of a high court judge and his wife tapped,
Hyderabad police commissioner
K Srinivas Reddy told the court Wednesday.
In a detailed affidavit, Reddy said the accused cops had obtained call and IP details of Justice K Sarath and his wife. Others on the list, the affidavit said, were then opposition leader A Revanth Reddy, his brothers, and many other MLAs.
A chargesheet has been filed against six accused in the case, including a former DCP.
Our investigators took the permission of Hyderabad chief metropolitan magistrate to obtain these details from telecom service providers,” the CP said in his affidavit submitted before a bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice T Vinod Kumar.
The other names mentioned in the affidavit, for which the accused cops obtained CDR and IPDR, included politicians, bureaucrats, cops and mediapersons. The list featured then opposition leader A Revanth Reddy (now CM), his brothers Anumula Kondal Reddy and Anumula Tirupati Reddy, and many other MLAs.
The phone tappingwas done in violation of laws, the CP said, adding that the mobile numbers were intercepted or CDR and IPDR data collected without any justifiable reason, such as a public emergency or in the interest of public safety.
While
phone tapping
has to be authorised by either Union or state home secretary, the
BRS govt
entrusted the task to SIB chief T Prabhakar Rao, accused number one in the case, he said. “He (Rao) was entrusted this task after his retirement and committed all sorts of irregularities in invading privacy of people. He ran a separate empire with his own set of cops who went to the extent of destroying the SIB record after BRS lost the elections,” the CP said.
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