Hyderabad: Over 1,200 phones were tapped and the accused, some of them top police officers, tried to destroy evidence by damaging storage devices, Hyderabad police has said in its chargesheet in the Telangana phone tapping case that has raised a political storm. No leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, which was in power in Telangana at the time, has been named in the chargesheet. The accused include Deputy Superintendent of Police D Praneeth Rao, Additional Superintendents Bhujanga Rao and Tirupathanna, former Deputy Commissioner of Police (task force) Radha Kishan Rao and two fugitives — former Special Intelligence Branch chief Prabhakar Rao and Sravan Kumar, senior employee in a local media organisation.
Telangana Snooping Chargesheet: 1,200 Phones Tapped, No BRS Leader Named


