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Naveen Kumar

Phone tapping case: two more police officials arrested in Hyderabad

In the latest development in the phone tapping case, the Panjagutta police arrested two Additional Superintendents of Police, identified as Bhujanga Rao and Tirupatanna.

Officials close to the investigation said they were accomplices of suspended DSP of the SIB Praneeth Kumar aka Praneeth Rao and were arrested on similar charges.

These include conspiracy to develop profiles of private persons by misusing their official positions, conspiracy to destroy evidence of their illegal activities and disappearance of evidence. They put private persons under surveillance and misused their powers with politically biased intentions, said the officials.

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