Hyderabad: Former Telangana intelligence chief T Prabhakar Rao, accused in a phone-tapping case, surrendered before police here on Friday as per a Supreme Court directive, officials said.

Rao, former chief of the Telangana Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) surrendered before the investigating officer at the Jubilee Hills police station here at 11 AM, as directed by the apex court.

A suspended DSP of the SIB is among four police officials who have been arrested by Hyderabad Police since March 2024 for allegedly erasing the intelligence information from various electronic gadgets as well as for alleged phone-tapping during the previous BRS regime. They were subsequently granted bail.

The accused are part of the alleged conspiracy in which they “misused” the resources of SIB for polit

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