Telangana - SIB team allegedly tapped phones of 1,200 people, claims Arrested Cop
D. Praneeth Rao, who led the SIB's Special Operations Team under the direction of then-SIB chief prabhakar Rao, revealed several surprising admissions during his confession to investigative investigators.
Praneeth Rao, a Deputy Superintendent of police in the SIB, confessed following similar confessions made by former Deputy Commissioner of police Radha Kishan Rao and Additional Superintendents of police N. Bhujanga Rao and M. Thirupathanna.
Praneeth Rao said that they created profiles of the BRS's political adversaries using a technology tool given by a private business.
He admitted to conducting some unauthorized job since he was grateful to prabhakar Rao for elevating him as DSP. He worked from two rooms close to prabhakar Rao's chamber at the SIB headquarters.
Praneeth Rao also stated that the phones of dissidents in the ruling party had been tapped. He further said that once congress took office, prabhakar Rao asked him to discontinue phone tapping and reportedly ordered him to delete records before resigning. He said that 50 hard drives were destroyed with a cutter in the SIB headquarters and that outdated servers were replaced with new ones.
Praneeth Rao said that he deleted the evidence between 7.30 p.m. and 8.15 p.m. on december 4, 2023. He tossed the damaged CDs into the musi river near nagole and Moosaram Bagh. The CDR and IDPR equipment were both destroyed by fire. Phones and pen drives that had been reformatted were tossed into the Begumpet nala.