Two additional superintendents of police have also been arrested by Hyderabad Police in connection with the case. The Hyderabad Police have arrested two additional superintendents of police (ASP) in connection with a phone tapping case that has rocked Telangana. A look out notice has also been issued against former state intelligence bureau chief T Prabhakar Rao and two others for not being present during probe and alleged non-cooperation, PTI reported. According to an NDTV report, Rao, who is believed to be in the US, has been named as accused No.1 in the case. According to the report, additional deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Thirupathanna and additional superintendent of Police N Bhujanga Rao, who were arrested, worked as ASPs in the Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) and Intelligence Department respectively. They were sent to judicial custody on Sunday. The lookout notice has also been issued against then deputy commissioner of police of Commissioner’s Task Force (a wing of Hyderabad Police) P Radhakrishna and a senior executive of a Telugu TV channel. According to the Telangana Police, both the arrested ASPs allegedly colluded with suspended state intelligence bureau (SIB) deputy superintendent of police (DSP) D Praneeth Rao. Rao was earlier arrested for allegedly erasing the intelligence information from various electronic gadgets as well as for alleged phone tapping during the previous BRS government. A Hyderabad Police statement said that the two arrested police officials confessed to alleged involvement in conspiracy to monitor private persons illegally by developing their profiles, abusing their official positions; to cause disappearance of evidence by destroying public property to conceal their involvement in collusion with the already arrested D Praneeth Kumar alias Praneeth Rao and some other persons”.
