First arrest in CBI JD call data leak case

HYDERABAD: Crime Investigation Department (CID) officials on Wednesday made the first breakthrough in CBI joint director VV Lakshminarayana's call data record (CDR) leak case by arresting Ind Bharath Energies (Maharashtra) vice-president here.
CID officials said Ind Bharath Engergies vice-president K Venka Reddy, who is reportedly a close associate of K Raghu Rama Raju, the prime accused in the case, was arrested for his role in the conspiracy and cover-up operation by falsification of records.
"KV Reddy admitted to having committed the offence at the instance of other accused, who are absconding. The role of Reddy was to collect the CDR of the CBI joint director by initially using the officer's phone number.
Subsequently, he also indulged in the cover-up operation,'' additional director-general (CID) SV Ramana Murthy told TOI.
As part of the operation to collect the CDR, KV Reddy had lodged a police complaint in Maharashtra alleging that he was getting threatening calls from a mobile number. However, he did not disclose that the number belonged to the CBI JD.
Using the police complaint and other false documents, he approached BSNL deputy director general K Hanumantha Rao seeking call details. Meanwhile, Hanumantha Rao was also unavailable for CID officials.The accused has been remanded in judicial custody.
The CID officials had earlier registered a case under sections 120 B, 420, 166 (Public servant disobeying a direction of the law with intent to cause injury to any person), 167 (Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury), 218 (Public servant framing incorrect record or writing with intent to save a person from punishment or property from forfeiture), 201(Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender), 500 (Punishment for defamation) 509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Information Technology Act.