No Authorisation Sought: Telangana Chief Secretary On Phone-Tapping Case
NDTV
Phone Tapping: Chief secretary Ravi Gupta has said the then Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) chief T Prabhakar Rao had not taken permission from him.
The Special Intelligence Bureau had not taken permission to tap phones of selected people, a Telangana home department official has said in an affidavit filed in the phone tapping case. Chief secretary Ravi Gupta has said the then Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) chief T Prabhakar Rao had not taken permission from him.
In the affidavit filed before the Telangana high court, Mr Gupta said Prabhakar Rao had been brought in as SIB chief for three years after his retirement from the intelligence wing. He played a key role in tapping phones of various people to help the state's erstwhile Bharat Rashtra Samithi government.
The senior IPS officer filed the affidavit in response to a notice issued by the High Court, which has taken up the phone tapping case as a suo motu writ petition.
