The State of Telangana today told the Supreme Court that former intelligence chief T Prabhakar Rao, accused of phone tapping of politicians and high court judges during the term of the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi-led Government in Telangana, was still not cooperating with the investigation.

“ He has done paper cooperation. Either the devices are not opening or they have been wiped out. So it is an exercise in futility ”, Senior Advocate Sidharth Luthra , for the State, said.

A bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice R Mahadevan listed his anticipatory bail plea for tomorrow and extended his interim protection from arrest until then.

The case against Rao is that he illegally intercepted phones of several important persons and later formatted electronic devices and destroye

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