The Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the phone-tapping case interrogated Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and former Telangana Minister T. Harish Rao for seven hours on Tuesday. Harish Rao emerged from the Jubilee Hills Police Station in the evening after being questioned. Responding to the SIT’s notice, he appeared before investigators at 11 a.m.
Tension mounted outside the police station in the evening as a large group of BRS leader’s supporters gathered to express solidarity. This marks the first instance of a prominent BRS leader facing SIT questioning in the alleged phone-tapping case involving political opponents, businessmen, journalists, and judges during the previous BRS government’s tenure.
Harish Rao, speaking at the BRS headquarters Telangana Bhavan, claimed that he was summoned as a retaliatory measure for exposing corruption involving Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s brother-in-law S. Srujan Reddy. He asserted that he posed more questions to the SIT officials than they did to him and refuted the phone-tapping allegations by highlighting that he did not hold the position of Home Minister.
