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SIT questions Prabhakar Rao in surveillance case
The Particular Investigation Workforce (SIT) of the Telangana police on Saturday questioned former Particular Intelligence Bureau (SIB) chief T Prabhakar Rao, the prime accused within the phone tapping case in the course of the earlier Bharat Rashtra Samithi authorities, folks conversant in the matter stated.
Prabhakar Rao appeared earlier than the investigating officers on the Jubilee Hills police station in Hyderabad.
“The SIT authorities confronted him with the statements given by beforehand interrogated suspects, together with former deputy superintendent of police D Praneeth Rao, retired deputy commissioner of police P Radha Kishan Rao and extra superintendents of police N Bhujanga Rao and M Thirupathanna, to extract concrete solutions,” an official aware about the event stated.
These officers had earlier deposed earlier than the SIT that that they had acted on the directions of Prabhakar Rao, who was heading the SIB, he stated.
This was the third time that the SIT interrogated Prabhakar Rao, who was accused of orchestrating the unlawful surveillance of a number of distinguished people.
“Through the earlier rounds of questioning, Prabhakar Rao was uncooperative and adopted a confrontational stance. He evaded key questions by claiming he didn’t recall occasions associated to the surveillance scandal,” the official quoted above stated.
After the final election outcomes, Prabhakar Rao had resigned from his put up. Inside simply 4 hours of his resignation, a number of exhausting disks from the SIB workplace reportedly went lacking.
Based on investigation findings, Praneeth Rao destroyed these exhausting disks and disposed of them within the Musi river.
“When questioned earlier about who had ordered the destruction of those supplies, Praneeth Rao confessed that he did so on Prabhakar Rao’s directions. Nevertheless, Prabhakar Rao has denied issuing any such orders, and has as a substitute challenged the investigators by asking them to indicate written directives in the event that they declare he gave any,” the official stated.
He stated when confronted with key questions associated to the telephone tapping conspiracy, Prabhakar Rao remained silent.
“The SIT is making an attempt to elicit extra info primarily based on the info retrieved from the exhausting disks retrieved from the Musi river,” the official added.
