SIT Grills KTR for 7 Hours in Phone-tapping Case
Rama Rao appeared before the SIT in response to a notice issued to him on Thursday asking him to appear before it for questioning at 11 am on Friday
Hyderabad: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) grills BRS working president KT Rama Rao for over seven hours in a phone-tapping case.
Minutes after reaching the Jubilee Hills ACP office at 11 am on Friday, the SIT officials questioned till 6.25 pm. He appeared before the SIT in response to a notice issued to him on Thursday asking him to appear before it for questioning at 11 am on Friday.
The questioning of Rama Rao was crucial because all the political leaders summoned by the SIT till now, including former minister T. Harish Rao, to a great extent were victims of phone-tapping.
For the first time, the SIT could explore the possibility of Rama Rao’s alleged involvement in the decision-making with regard to the tapping of phones by the erstwhile BRS government.
The then-Special Investigation Bureau (SIB) officials under the BRS government intercepted mobile phones of political leaders, celebrities, Tollywood actors, journalists and judges. Rama Rao was served notices under Section 160 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) which allows the investigating officer to summon witnesses, suspects, or even “potential accused.”
The SIT’s notice to Rama Rao came a day after his brother-in-law and former minister Harish Rao was grilled for more than seven hours.
