Hyderabad. The Hyderabad Police has approached the CBI to issue a Red Corner Notice against two accused, including former Telangana Special Intelligence Bureau chief T Prabhakar Rao, a key accused in the wiretapping case, police said on Saturday. A suspended DSP of the Special Intelligence Bureau, two Additional Superintendents of Police and a former Deputy Commissioner of Police were arrested by the Hyderabad Police on March 13 for allegedly deleting intelligence information from various electronic devices and intercepting telephone conversations during the previous tenure of the BRS.

The former SIB chief and another accused in the case are absconding and suspected to be in the US. Hyderabad Police Commissioner K Sreenivasa Reddy on Saturday said he recently met the CBI director and asked him to expedite the Red Corner Notice. The Central Bureau of Investigation is the nodal agency for Interpol in India and a request for the global alert has to be routed through this agency. “The process will continue once the main culprits are arrested and they are absconding now. We have also written to the US Consul General that they are misusing the other country’s visas. We are hopeful in the next few days…”, the Hyderabad Police Commissioner told reporters. He said it was under process and “we want to expedite it”. The process is going on and the other accused who are in jail are not getting bail despite their best efforts because this is a serious crime that involves intrusion into people’s private lives, the senior police officer said. Asked whether the police were considering sending notices to political leaders as part of their investigation into the case, the commissioner said: “As the case progresses… definitely.”

Prabhakar Rao was accused of forming a ‘Special Operations Team’ under the suspended DSP within the SIB to carry out certain tasks related to political surveillance for the benefit of the then ruling political party and its leaders.

The retired police officer, who is currently undergoing “medical treatment” in the US, had recently denied the allegations against him, terming them “wild and false”. The suspended DSP and his team created profiles of hundreds of people and intercepted hundreds of phone conversations of several persons, police said. The arrested accused and others are accused of creating profiles of several persons without any authorization and secretly and illegally monitoring them in the SIB and using them in a partisan manner on behalf of some persons to benefit a political party. They also allegedly conspired to destroy the records to make evidence of their crimes disappear, police said earlier.

Meanwhile, a press release from Hyderabad Police said that seven teams of Hyderabad Cybercrime Police Station participated in a special operation in Gujarat and arrested 36 accused, including a chartered accountant and seven main accused from India, and uncovered 20 cases of cybercrime.

The accused were wanted in 983 cases across India, including Telangana, it said. The arrested accused, who were involved in 15 cases of online trading and investment fraud, four cases of ‘online package’ fraud and one KYC scam, were arrested after people from Hyderabad complained that they were cheated by the accused by taking money from them either through luring or threats, police said.

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