Union Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Friday said that the Telangana government should hand over the probe into the alleged illegal phone tapping during the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi regime to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Speaking to reporters, he said he does not have "trust" in the probe by the SIT (Special Investigation Team). He said this before meeting the officers of the SIT to record his statement as a witness in the phone-tapping case.
He, further, said that the Congress government is not giving freedom to them to conduct the probe freely.
Hinting at friendship between the Congress and BRS, Kumar said the Congress government has appointed Commissions of inquiry over allegations into various issues during the BRS regime but no action is being taken.
Kumar claimed that his phone calls were the highest to be tapped when he had served as president of Bharatiya Janata Party in Telangana during the BRS government. He also claimed that the phone calls of his family members, staff, those who worked at his home, BJP leaders and workers were tapped.
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He said it was he who exposed the illegal phone-tapping during the BRS regime. Kumar has denied to submit the information and "confidential report" available with him regarding phone-tapping to the SIT.
Accusing former Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao of being behind phone-tapping, Kumar had earlier said he would cooperate with the investigators.
The suspended DSP of the SIB was among the four police officials arrested by the Hyderabad police in March 2024 for allegedly erasing intelligence information from various electronic gadgets, as well as for phone-tapping during the BRS regime. They were subsequently granted bail.
Those named as accused in the case, along with others, had allegedly developed profiles of several people in an unauthorised manner and were accused of monitoring them clandestinely and illegally in the SIB.
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