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The Special Investigation Team probing the phone-tapping case has summoned Bharat Rashtra Samithi Working President K. T. Rama Rao for questioning, directing him to look earlier investigators connected Friday (January 23, 2026) astatine 11 a.m. astatine the Jubilee Hills constabulary station.
The notice, issued connected January 22, 2026 nether Section 160 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, stated that the probe had indicated that Rama Rao was alert of definite facts and circumstances linked to the lawsuit and that his beingness was required to assistance the probe.
The summons comes days aft erstwhile Minister and Siddipet MLA T. Harish Rao appeared earlier the SIT connected January 20 successful transportation with the aforesaid case.
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The Telangana authorities precocious constituted a 10-member Special Investigation Team, headed by Hyderabad Police Commissioner V. C. Sajjanar, to expedite the probe into the alleged telephone tapping, astir 21 months aft the transgression was registered. Jubilee Hills Assistant Commissioner of Police P. Venkatagiri, who has been associated with the probe since its aboriginal stages, has been appointed arsenic the investigating serviceman of the SIT.
The lawsuit pertains to allegations that telephone calls were illegally intercepted done the Special Intelligence Branch to payment the Bharat Rashtra Samithi.
The substance came to airy pursuing the apprehension of erstwhile SIB Deputy Superintendent of Police Praneeth Rao connected March 13, 2024. He was taken into custody from his residence successful Rajanna Sircilla territory aft a ailment by his superior, Additional Superintendent of Police D. Ramesh, alleging unauthorised interception of the calls of respective elder governmental leaders and authorities officials.
