Outrage over Telangana phone tapping after cops’ confessions

Duggyala Praneeth Rao, who headed the special operations team, gave his confession statement on March 13 but it went public on Wednesday

The Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) of the Telangana Police tapped mobile phones of around 1,200 people, including political leaders, social activists, members of student organisations, business people, judges, lawyers and journalists during the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) regime headed by K Chandrasekhar Rao, a suspended deputy superintendent of police has confessed to the police.

An internal probe was ordered soon after the formation of the new Congress government under A Revanth Reddy. (ANI)

Duggyala Praneeth Rao, who headed the special operations team (SOT) in SIB, gave his confession statement before the Panjagutta police on March 13, but this