The telephone tapping row got here to mild after the BRS misplaced energy to Congress (Representational)
Hyderabad:
A metropolis court docket on Thursday dismissed bail petitions of three suspended cops who’re accused within the alleged telephone tapping case.
The Further Chief Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Courtroom denied bail to former Further SPs Bhujanga Rao and Tirupathanna and former DSP Praneeth Rao.
The court docket, which had reserved its orders on Wednesday, pronounced the identical on Thursday.
The accused had sought bail on the bottom that police had not filed the chargesheet once they had moved their utility.
The attorneys of the accused had argued that police had not filed a chargesheet throughout the obligatory interval of 90 days from the date of registration of the FIR.
Nevertheless, the general public prosecutor submitted to the court docket that the chargesheet was submitted to the court docket on June 10 however, because of some errors, the court docket had returned the chargesheet, and it was re-submitted.
It might be recalled that police needed to file the chargesheet for the third time on June 25 after the court docket returned the identical twice.
Three serving cops and a former officer have to this point been arrested within the case, regarding alleged tapping of telephones of politicians, enterprise individuals, celebrities and even some judges in the course of the earlier authorities of BRS.
A number of opposition leaders, together with then Congress MP and current Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, dissidents throughout the then ruling celebration, businesspersons and journalists had been amongst these whose telephones had been allegedly tapped by a group throughout the Particular Intelligence Bureau (SIB).
The telephone tapping and snooping row got here to mild after the BRS misplaced energy to Congress and an official in SIB who was a part of the operation was discovered destroying the collected knowledge.
In March, a case was registered with the Panjagutta police after a petition was filed by extra SP, SIB D. Ramesh.
Praneeth Rao was arrested after he allegedly destroyed arduous disks and different knowledge after Congress got here to energy in December final yr.
Later, the police arrested Bhujanga Rao, Tirupathanna and former Deputy Commissioner of Police P. Radha Kishan Rao.
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