Hyderabad: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the phone-tapping case, has issued notices to former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao at his farmhouse in Erravalli, Siddipet, where he is currently staying, Tv9 Telugu reported.
The BRS leader will likely appear before the SIT on Friday, January 30 at 3 PM.
Who are the accused and what is the phone-tapping case?
The notices to KCR comes after the SIT summoned and questioned former ministers and BRS MLAs KT Rama Rao and T Harish Rao, former BRS Rajya Sabha MP Santosh Kumar in the case.
The accused in the case include former Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) chief T Prabhakar Rao, former DSP D Praneeth Rao, N Bhujanga Rao, Tirupatanna, Radha Kishan Rao, Shravan Rao for allegedly intercepting mobile phones of prominent political leaders, celebrities, journalists and judiciary.
BRS Party has slammed the ‘political weaponisation’ of the SIT by the current government and said that it is using the process as a ‘diversionary tactic’.
The Congress, however, has alleged that BRS is indulging in theatrics to divert the public attention from the ongoing investigation in phone-tapping case. The case was first registered in March 2024 based on the complaint filed by G Chakradhar Goud of Siddipet district at Panjagutta police station for disappearance of evidence after committing offence, criminal breach of trust and others.