Hyderabad Police seeks CBI’s help in issuing red notice against accused in phone tapping case | Latest News India

Hyderabad, Hyderabad Police has asked the CBI to issue a Red Corner Notice against two accused, including former Telangana Special Intelligence Bureau chief T Prabhakar Rao, a key accused in the phone tapping case, police said on Saturday. The suspended Special Intelligence Bureau DSP, two additional superintendents of police and a former deputy commissioner of police were arrested by the Hyderabad police on March 13 for allegedly deleting intelligence information from various electronic gadgets and also for allegedly tapping phones during the previous BRS regime.

The former SIB chief and another accused in the case are absconding and are suspected to be in the US. Hyderabad Police Commissioner K Sreenivasa Reddy on Saturday said he had recently met the CBI director and requested him to expedite the Red Corner Notice. The Central Bureau of Investigation is the nodal agency for Interpol in India and the request for a global alert has to be sent through the agency. “The case will take off once the main people are arrested and are now absconding. We have also written to the US Consul General that they are misusing visas of another country. We are hopeful that in the coming days…,” the Hyderabad police chief told reporters. He said the case was under investigation and “we want to expedite it”. The case is under investigation and the other accused in the case, who are in jail, despite all efforts, will not be released on bail as it is a serious offence that involves intrusion into the private life of people, a senior police officer said. Responding to a question about whether police were considering issuing notices to political leaders as part of the investigation into the case, the commissioner said “as the case progresses… definitely”.

Prabhakar Rao was accused of forming a ‘Special Operations Team’ under the suspended DSP of the SIB to carry out certain tasks related to political supervision for the then ruling political party and its leaders.

The retired police officer, who is in the US for “treatment”, recently denied the allegations levelled against him, calling them “wild and false”. The suspended DSP and his team had developed profiles of hundreds of people, intercepted hundreds of phone conversations of several people, the police said. The arrested accused, along with others, has been accused of developing profiles of several people in an unauthorized manner and monitoring them secretly and illegally in the SIB and using them in a biased manner to favour a political party at the behest of some individuals, and conspiring to destroy files to cause disappearance of evidence of their crimes, the police had said earlier.

Meanwhile, the Hyderabad police said in a statement that seven teams of Hyderabad police from the cyber crime branch took part in a special drive in Gujarat and arrested 36 accused, including a chartered accountant and seven key accused persons from India, and also detected 20 cases of cyber crimes in the country.

The accused were wanted in 983 cases across India, including Telangana, it said. The arrested accused, who were involved in 15 cases of online trading and investment scams, four online parcel scams and one KYC scam, were arrested following complaints from residents of Hyderabad that they were cheated by the accused who collected amounts from them by luring them or threatening them, the police said.

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