According to a PTI story, the Hyderabad Police had detained two additional senior officers. This is furthermore in relation to the Telangana phone-tapping case.
What Is The Telangana Issue About?
The issue concerns the purported interception of multiple individuals’ phones, allegedly including Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, during the previous year’s Assembly elections, as well as the destruction of specific computer systems and government data.
In response to a report submitted by D. Ramesh, an additional superintendent of police with the Special Intelligence Bureau, D. Praneeth Rao, a suspended deputy superintendent of police, was taken into custody on March 13. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Thirupathanna and Additional Superintendent of Police N Bhujanga Rao were detained on suspicion of conspiring with Praneeth Rao. This was stated by the police in a statement on Saturday, according to PTI.
“The two police officers have admitted to participating in the reported crimes during questioning. These crimes include conspiring to unlawfully monitor private individuals by creating false profiles and abusing their official positions; to cause evidence to vanish by damaging public property in order to hide their involvement in collusion with D Praneeth Kumar, also known as Praneeth Rao, DSP [under suspension], and some other individuals,” the release stated.
Praneeth Rao’s Claim
Praneeth Rao’s statement was included in the police’s remand report that was presented to a Hyderabad court. According to the Deccan Chronicle, Rao claimed that he participated in the purported phone tapping and data destruction on former Special Intelligence Bureau chief T Prabhakar Rao’s orders.
Praneet stated, “Prabhakar Rao told me to get engaged in phone tapping, he would take care of my promotion.” “Tapped phone numbers from Thirupatanna and N Bhujanga Rao.”
According to Bhujanga Rao, the numbers provided by Bharat Rashtra Samithi representatives were tapped. The remand report said, “Forwarded numbers given by [former task force deputy commissioner of police] Radha Kishan Rao to Praneeth Rao and Tirupatanna.”
Six days after Praneeth Rao was suspended as the deputy superintendent of police for “gross misconduct” and “abuse of official position,” the Punjagutta Police filed a criminal case against him on March 10.
The Allegations On Praneeth Rao
According to D. Ramesh’s complaint, Praneeth Rao exhibited a troubling pattern of behavior from 2018 to 2023. Moreover, he was serving as the Special Intelligence Bureau’s deputy superintendent of police and then as an inspector.
He claimed that Rao was involved in disassembling and erasing data from up to 42 hard drives. He was also swapping them out for new ones. Ramesh further said that on the evening of December 4, 2023, the day Bharat Rashtra Samithi lost the Assembly elections, Rao turned off the cameras and disassembled and destroyed equipment holding data.
Moreover, under several pertinent provisions of the Indian Penal Code, including criminal conspiracy, tampering with evidence, criminal trespass, and breach of trust, police had filed a case. Additionally, cases under the Information Technology Act and the Prevention of Destruction of Public Records Act of 1984 were filed.
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