Was former police officer T. Prabhakar Rao authorised or designated as an official authorised to order interception of messages, and if so who permitted him?
Answers to these two questions had become crucial in the ongoing investigation of the case of ‘developing profiles of unknown persons and monitoring them’ by some police officers from the premises of Special Intelligence Branch (SIB) in Hyderabad. With the confessional statements of the police officers arrested so far in the case suggesting that ‘whatever they had done was at the behest of Prabhakar Rao’, the investigators are trying to find answer to these pivotal questions.
While speculation is rife that this group of police officers used specially secured gadgets, equipment, tools and software to intercept to telephone calls and messages, the investigators are yet gather any incriminating evidence in this angle. However, they had stumbled upon data and information that phone messages and calls of some targeted persons had been intercepted misusing the power accorded for intercepting messages.
