Telephone tapping case: Prabhakar Rao shall be proclaimed offender if he fails to look earlier than courtroom by June 20-OxBig News Network

An area courtroom right here would possibly announce T. Prabhakar Rao, the absconding accused in phone tapping case, as proclaimed offender if he doesn’t seem earlier than the courtroom by June 20. 

The Fourteenth Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate handed a course to this extent. Retired IPS officer and former chief of Special Intelligence Branch, Mr. Rao held a number of key positions in police division. According to police division, he ‘fled the country’ on studying that the phone tapping case was registered.

However, Mr. Rao in his communication to the police division within the affidavits he had filed within the courts maintained that he had gone to U.S. for medical therapy for critical ailment and was able to cooperate with the investigators. The Telangana High Court had rejected his anticipatory bail petition following which he had moved the Supreme Court. 

In January, the investigators filed a petition within the trial courtroom requesting it to declare Mr. Rao as a proclaimed offender beneath Section 82 of Criminal Procedure Code. Mr. Rao was accused of eavesdropping on the calls of politicians, bureaucrats, journalists, judicial officers and others with a staff of his subordinate cops whereas serving as SIB chief for the profit of the then BRS authorities throughout its second stint.

In December 2023, BRS misplaced the elections and Congress got here to energy following which Mr. Rao submitted his resignation as SIB chief (he was on extension of service having superannuated). On March 10, a felony case was registered by Punjagutta police following a grievance lodged by an SIB officer about some laborious disks and different digital proof being destructed in part of the SIB workplace.

Within days of registration of the case, Mr. Rao left for the U.S. The investigators ultimately arrested 4 different cops within the case. Based on their confession, Mr. Rao was made the primary accused within the phone tapping case. 

In January, the police filed a petition within the decrease courtroom looking for to declare Mr. Rao as proclaimed offender beneath Section 82 of Cr.P.C. having tried to serve warrants issued once more him by the courtroom. After listening to contentions of the federal government counsel, the courtroom on Tuesday handed an order directing Mr. Rao to look earlier than it by June 20. 

If Mr. Rao fails to look earlier than the courtroom by the stated date, the Justice of the Peace would possibly declare him a proclaimed offender.