Two biggies behind JD call data leak: CID

HYDERABAD: The CID that is investigating the call data leak case informed the high court on Friday that two persons, a deputy director general of the telecom department currently working in Nagpur, Maharashtra and MD of Hyderabad-based MIC Electronics Ltd, helped the accused in the case to obtain and make public the data pertaining to the telephone calls made and received by CBI joint director VV Lakshminarayana.
An affidavit to this effect was filed by the CID in court while opposing a petition of K Raghu Rama Krishna Raju, an accused in the criminal case. Raju had urged the court to quash the FIR against him claiming that he had no role to play in the call data leak case.
According to the CID, Raju first approached his friend M V Ramana Rao, the MD of MIC Electronics at ECIL in Kushaiguda and sought his help in obtaining the call data of Lakshminarayana and two other SPs of the CBI. Ramana Rao then contacted his friend K Hanumantha Rao, the DDG of Nagpur telecom who is with the Telecom Enforcement, Resource and Monitoring (TERM) wing there. They obtained the details in a fraudulent manner with an ulterior motive to drag into controversy the public servants who are probing into certain serious white collar offences, the CID affidavit signed by its SP, D Ramakrishnaiah, said.
Justice K C Bhanu dismissed Raju’s plea saying the court would not interfere at the stage of investigation. “There are alternative remedies available to you under the provisions of CrPC,” the judge said.