CHITHALURI REVANTH
The former SIB chief, retired IPS officer T. Prabhakar Rao, has been named ‘accused number 1’ and a Telugu TV news channel chairman, Sravan Rao Aruvela, has been named as ‘accused number 6’ in the phone tapping case. The police included them in the case on April 29 after investigating four other accused in the case. It was revealed that the conspirator behind the phone tapping case was Prabhakar Rao and the police are trying to track him as he is abroad. On March 22, the police searched the houses of T. Prabhakar Rao and Shravan Rao Aruvela. Later, the police found out that the two had reportedly fled abroad to escape prosecution. Meanwhile, the Nampally sessions court heard arguments on the bail petition filed by former Task Force DCP Radha Kishan Rao on April 30. On May 2, the court accepted Special Public Prosecutor S. Sambasiva Reddy’s arguments and refused bail to the accused. On April 30, the government advocate argued in court that due to the destruction of hard discs and other equipment, the police lost sensitive data which was collected by them over decades. The police advocate told the court that the police needed time to record the statements of some other witnesses and victims. If Radhakishan Rao is released on bail he might influence witnesses and therefore there is a chance that it would affect the investigation. The court granted interim bail to Radha Kishan Rao on April 21 from 11 am to 3 pm so that he could see his ailing mother in Karimnagar. Later, once more he filed a bail petition so that he could write LLM exams in the city. But the court dismissed the petition. CHITHALURI REVANTH n HYDERABAD The former SIB chief, retired IPS officer T. Prabhakar Rao, has been named ‘accused number 1’ and a Telugu TV news channel chairman, Sravan Rao Aruvela, has been named as ‘accused number 6’ in the phone tapping case. The police included them in the case on April 29 after investigating four other accused in the case. It was revealed that the conspirator behind the phone tapping case was Prabhakar Rao and the police are trying to track him as he is abroad. On March 22, the police searched the houses of T. Prabhakar Rao and Shravan Rao Aruvela. Later, the police found out that the two had reportedly fled abroad to escape prosecution. Meanwhile, the Nampally sessions court heard arguments on the bail petition filed by former Task Force DCP Radha Kishan Rao on April 30. On May 2, the court accepted Special Public Prosecutor S. Sambasiva Reddy’s arguments and refused bail to the accused. On April 30, the government advocate argued in court that due to the destruction of hard discs and other equipment, the police lost sensitive data which was collected by them over decades. The police advocate told the court that the police needed time to record the statements of some other witnesses and victims. If Radhakishan Rao is released on bail he might influence witnesses and therefore there is a chance that it would affect the investigation. The court granted interim bail to Radha Kishan Rao on April 21 from 11 am to 3 pm so that he could see his ailing mother in Karimnagar. Later, once more he filed a bail petition so that he could write LLM exams in the city. But the court dismissed the petition.
