BJP leader and Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, said the phone-tapping case was dragging on so long that television serials that had started during this period wound up their episodes by this time.
Phone-tapping case: KCR reaches Hyderabad ahead of SIT examination. (Photo: IANS)
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the phone-tapping case is all set to issue notices to former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and former finance minister T Harish Rao. The notices are likely to be issued after the winter session of the state Legislative Assembly in December.
BJP leader and Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, said the phone-tapping case was dragging on so long that television serials that had started during this period wound up their episodes by this time.
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The investigators would now be probing the angle of who ordered the phone tapping during the BRS regime. The former head of the Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB), T Prabhakar Rao, who remains in police custody after the Supreme Court extended it, named former DGP Mahender Reddy and senior officer Anil Kumar during his interrogation. The newly constituted SIT, headed by Hyderabad police commissioner VC Sajjanar, has already recorded the statements of former DGP Mahender Reddy and also former chief secretary Somesh Kumar. Prabhakar Rao had said the phone tapping was done over suspicion that the individuals, including opposition leaders, had links with Maoists.
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Meanwhile, the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, welcomed the decision to question the former chief minister, K Chandrasekhar Rao. He said, “I welcome the SIT’s decision to issue notices to BRS chief KCR and BRS working president KTR in the phone tapping case. Not only did they order the tapping of the phones of many leaders, including myself, but they also sowed discord in numerous families and ultimately went so far as to tap the phones of daughters-in-law and sons-in-law, thereby corrupting the esteemed SIB system.”
He added, “There are also allegations that they misused the SIB system. There are also allegations that they misused the SIB to blackmail and extort money from contractors and leaders. A thorough investigation must be conducted in those as well.” However, the BJP leader questioned the progress of the investigations in the long-drawn case, drawing a parallel with episodes of TV serials.
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