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Phone tapping case: KTR threatens legal action against Congress leaders and media reporting their statements

KTR updated his tweet to add, 'Will be serving legal notices to news outlets who are dishing out this garbage without verifying the facts.'

BySouth First Desk

Published Apr 02, 2024 | 11:47 AM ⚊UpdatedApr 02, 2024 | 11:47 AM

BRS working president KT Rama Rao. (X)

BRS working president KT Rama Rao took to X, to share that the allegations made against him by Congress leaders in the sensational phone tapping case are baseless.

The Siricilla MLA further threatened legal action against Congress leaders and the media outlets carrying the news ‘without verifying the facts’.

He wrote: “Both these Congress fellows (including the minister) will be served legal notices for defamation & slander. Either Apologise for these shameful, baseless & nonsensical allegations or face legal consequences.”

The leader later updated his tweet to add, “Also will be serving legal notices to news outlets who are dishing out this garbage without verifying the facts.”

Both these Congress fellows (including the minister) will be served legal notices for defamation & slander

Either Apologise for this shameful, baseless & nonsensical allegations or face legal consequences

Also will be serving legal notices to news outlets who are dishing out… pic.twitter.com/IjHNQ7Yn2T

— KTR (@KTRBRS) April 2, 2024

KTR, as he is popularly known, was referring to the allegations made by Telangana Minister Konda Surekha, Siricilla Congress leader K Mahender Reddy, and Mahbubnagar MLA Yennam Srinivas Reddy.

K Mahender Reddy and Srinivas Reddy filed complaints with the police Commissioner Kothakota Sreenivas Reddy regarding the tapping of his phone in the past week.

They claimed, their phones were tapped during the recent assembly elections by a former BRS minister.

Mahender Reddy claimed, “Corporators and other local leaders of Rajanna Sircilla district were also threatened during the elections to not join Congress.”

Meanwhile, Telangana Minister Konda Surekha speaking to reporters in Warangal on Monday claimed, the phones of Tollywood heroines were also tapped by KTR.

She stated that KTR and his father, former Chief Minister KCR would be soon arrested for their involvement in the phone tapping case.

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Phone tapping case

Based on a complaint filed by an additional superintendent of police of the Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) on 10 March, a case was registered against Praneeth Rao and others at Panjagutta police station in Hyderabad on charges of criminal breach of trust by a public servant, causing disappearance of evidence, and criminal conspiracy and other sections of IPC, PDPP Act and IT Act-2000.

The case was registered against them for allegedly destroying certain computer systems and official data of the SIB, including those obtained by him clandestinely and illegally in collusion with others with an intention to make wrongful gain, the police had said.

They were also accused of developing profiles of some persons and monitoring them, causing disappearance of physical and electronic records of the SIB, and copying intelligence information into personal drives, police said.

On Monday, April 1, a document related to the case was shared widely on social media.

It apparently showed how officers of the Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) tapped the phones of their targets and how they communicated among themselves.