An absconding Telangana’s retired IPS officer, T Prabhakar Rao IPS, is now scurrying for legal cover, but to no avail. The Telangana High
Court on Friday dismissed his petition seeking protection from arrest in the telephone tapping case. Rao is the prime accused in the case
and is presently hiding in the United States of America.
Justice J. Sreenivas Rao of the Telangana High Court dismissed the bail petition moved by him.
Rao’s crisis deepened after his passport was revoked by the Union government recently and the INTERPOL issued a red-corner notice
seeking his detention. It is when Rao ran to the Telangana HC seeking protection from arrest when he returns to India. Rao said that he
would co-operate with the investigators after coming to India but wanted an anticipatory bail. But the HC remained unmoved.
Prabhakar Rao was a high-flying IPS officer holding key posts like Intelligence chief during the previous BRS government in Telangana.
He was the Special Intelligence Branch (SIB) chief on extension of service when the Congress party came to power in December 2023.
But his allegedly objectionable action to placate his political masters turned the tide against him after the change of political regime.
A criminal case was registered by the Hyderabad police on a complaint alleging telephone tapping at the behest of politicians in power during BRS rule. In the following action, Rao emerged as the prime accused. He, however, had left the country by then.
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