Retired police officer P. Radhakishan Rao, who was arrested in the case of ‘developing profiles of unknown persons and monitoring them’, admitted to investigators that he ‘utilised police officers and vehicles allotted to Task Force for transportation of cash during 2023 Telangana Assembly elections in support of BRS party’.
The confessional statement of Rao in the remand case diary said that he used police officers and vehicles at his command for transportation of money to escape from getting it seized by Flying Squad Teams and Static Surveillance Teams. According to the report, a sub-inspector of Hyderabad Police Commissioner’s Task Force (Central) team Sai Kiran escorted ‘huge cash in government vehicle from various locations and handed over to one Divya Charan Rao, a retired police officer working at Yashoda hospital, two times’.
At the behest of Radhakishan Rao, according to the report, the SI met Divya Charan Rao at Yashoda hospital. The latter sent a person to collect ₹1 crore from Ranigunj. The SI collected this money and delivered it to Yashoda hospital at Secunderabad, the report states. On another occasion, the SI (accompanied by a person introduced by Divya Charan Rao) collected ₹1 crore and passed it on to Charan Rao.
