Hyderabad: The Nampally court on Monday, August 19, granted bail to ASP Bhujanga Rao, who is involved in the phone tapping case.
Rao was granted 15-day bail after he submitted his medical history related to a cardiac treatment he had undergone and claimed that further treatment was required.
Rao has been in custody since March 23. He is accused of being part of a team of police officials who allegedly tapped the phones of politicians – including current Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and his family, as well as leading industrialists and private individuals – to help the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) stay in power in Telangana.
After investigation, the police named six accused, including former Special Intelligence Bureau chief Prabhakar Rao, DSP officer Praneeth Rao, ASP Bhujanga Rao and Tirupathanna and senior executive of a local media house Sravan Kumar. Of these, Prabhakar and Kumar are absconding.
Four of the accused have been in jail for five months and their bail applications have been rejected repeatedly. According to a TOI report, the first additional session judge while granting bail to Rao set conditions. One of them is that the accused should not cross the GHMC limits.
“This Court is of the view that, given the complexity of the medical condition of the accused, a thorough diagnosis may be required, which may even include his hospitalization. Given the medical condition of the accused, this Court is of the view that the application of the accused for grant of interim bail on medical and humanitarian grounds is required to be considered,” the order said.
