Telangana phone tapping case: SIT begins recording statements of victims

Intensifying its probe into the phone tapping case during the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Telangana Police on Sunday began recording statements of the victims.

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The SIT officials have summoned political leaders, businessmen and journalists whose phones were allegedly tapped.

The investigators will be recording their statements on the basis of evidence found so far during the probe.

The SIT has once again summoned former Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) chief T. Prabhakar Rao for questioning.

Prabhakar Rao, the prime accused in the case who returned from the United States last week, has been directed to appear before the SIT on June 17. He has so far appeared three times before the SIT officials.

He appeared before the investigating officers at the Jubilee Hills police station in Hyderabad for a third time on Saturday and was grilled for about nine hours.

Prabhakar Rao, who was accused of orchestrating the illegal surveillance of several prominent individuals, has reportedly confessed that a special team was constituted in the SIB to tap the phones of politicians who were working against BRS.