Phone-Tapping Case Against Harish Rao Transferred To Siddipet
Following the transfer on jurisdictional grounds, Siddipet One Town Police registered a fresh FIR (Crime No. 496/2026) on Saturday.
Siddipet:The phone-tapping case filed by Gadagoni Chakradhar Goud, who contested the Assembly election from Siddipet on a Congress ticket, against BRS leader T. Harish Rao has been transferred from Panjagutta Police Station in Hyderabad to Siddipet One Town Police Station.
Following the transfer on jurisdictional grounds, Siddipet One Town Police registered a fresh FIR (Crime No. 496/2026) on Saturday. The FIR names Harish Rao as the prime accused and former DCP Radhakishan Rao, among others.
Goud, founder of the Farmers First Foundation, lodged a complaint on December 1, 2024, alleging that his phone and his wife’s phone had been tapped during the 2023 Assembly election. Based on his complaint, Panjagutta Police registered Crime No. 1205/2024.
The fresh FIR includes six additional sections compared with the original case: IPC Sections 419, 420, 467 and 406, relating to alleged cheating, forgery and criminal breach of trust, and Sections 66C and 66D of the Information Technology Act, relating to identity theft and cheating by personation using computer resources.