Police tapped judges' phones: Telangana high court citing sealed report

HYDERABAD: Telangana HC acknowledged Thursday that a sealed-cover probe report furnished by the state indicted some cops for tapping phones of several HC judges and creating profiles based on such unlawful surveillance, reports Sagar Kumar Mutha.

At the same time, Justice K Sujana granted bail to two key cops, suspended ACP N Bhujanga Rao and retired DCP P Radhakishan Rao, on grounds the investigation would take long and the trial would be delayed. The two have been in jail for nearly a year. The judge also referred to an SC order, cited by the duo's counsel, granting bail to Mekala Thirupathanna, a suspended ASP who is named prime accused in the case.

Justice Sujana referred to the sealed report that as part of a criminal conspiracy among all accused, profiles of not one or two, but several judges of the high court were prepared by tapping their phones.


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