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The Telangana authorities has issued orders demoting a erstwhile serviceman with Special Intelligence Branch (SIB) successful transportation with the amerciable telephone tapping case, cancelling the accelerated promotion granted to him earlier and reverting him to a little rank.
The officer, Dugyala Praneeth Rao, was serving arsenic a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and has present been demoted to the fertile of Circle Inspector.
Praneeth Rao, a 2007 batch officer, was earlier suspended pursuing his apprehension successful the lawsuit successful 2024. With the cancellation of his accelerated promotion, helium volition proceed successful work arsenic an Inspector.
He served successful the Special Intelligence Branch during the erstwhile authorities and faced allegations of illegally tapping the phones of governmental leaders and elected representatives.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the lawsuit has besides questioned erstwhile main of Special Investigation Bureau (SIB), T. Prabhakar Rao, connected aggregate occasions arsenic portion of the probe.
Praneeth Rao excessively was earlier questioned for respective hours by the SIT connected June 13, 2025, astatine the Jubilee Hills ACP bureau successful transportation with amerciable telephone tapping and the alleged demolition of integer evidence. Investigators person accused him of destroying hard disks that allegedly contained important information related to the surveillance operations.
He was arrested connected March 13, 2024, aft Panjagutta constabulary detained him from his residence successful Rajanna Sircilla district. The apprehension followed a ailment by Additional Superintendent of Police D. Ramesh, his erstwhile superior, who accused him of illegally intercepting the calls of elder governmental leaders and authorities officials.
