Hyderabad: Union Minister and BJP leader Bandi Sanjay completed over two hours of questioning before the Special Investigation Team in the Telangana phone tapping case on Friday. He submitted multiple files containing what he described as key evidence, including hard copies, soft copies and audio recordings, to the investigators.
Speaking to reporters after the session, Sanjay claimed the list of tapped numbers included Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and BRS leader Harish Rao. He alleged his phone was tapped extensively under the previous BRS government, adding that SIT disclosures on the scale of surveillance had shocked him. He accused officials of misusing Maoist threat lists to justify tapping, and charged that even his household staff’s phones were monitored.
Bandi Sanjay phone tapping claims include judges, political rivals
Sanjay alleged that former CM K. Chandrashekar Rao’s administration tapped the phones of BRS MLC K. Kavitha and ordinary citizens. He said surveillance on him intensified when he served as BJP’s state president, with constant monitoring of his movements. He demanded capital punishment for retired police officers Radhakishan Rao and Prabhakar Rao, accusing the current government of shielding them.
According to Sanjay, leaked operational plans against the repeal of G.O. 317 were among the materials he handed over to the SIT. He claimed Karimnagar police had prepared for his arrest in advance and that his planned meetings during the Praja Sangrama Yatra were deliberately obstructed after being tracked. He alleged phones of judges were tapped during hearings of his bail pleas and during High Court proceedings on party event permissions. Evidence collected from former police and intelligence officials, along with audio clips stored on a pen drive, was also submitted to the SIT.
