Phone-tapping Row

Phones of about 1,200 people, including political rivals, their family members and supporters, judges, journalists, and business persons were tapped by a special team in Telangana's Special Intelligence Bureau.

In an explosive revelation in the Telangana phone tapping and snooping row, ex-DCP Radhakrishna Rao has claimed devices belonging to media industry bigwigs, retired cops, and politicians (including from then-ruling BRS) were hacked.

A former DCP of the Commissioner's Task Force, a wing of Hyderabad Police, and another police official were questioned by the police in connection with a case of phone tapping and destroying certain computer systems and official data.

Former Telangana Intelligence Bureau chief T Prabhakhar Rao has been named as Accused No 1 in the phone-tapping case that has roiled the state ahead of a general election.

CBI chief Subodh Kumar Jaiswal has been summoned by the cyber cell of the Mumbai Police in connection with a phone-tapping and data leak case that had spawned a political row and a case being heard by the Bombay High Court.

As the Pegasus scandal rocks Parliament, a phone-tapping controversy has erupted in Bengal, where police today filed a case against BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari over claims he has information of calls to the police from Abhishek Banerjee's office.

The Congress demanded Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat's resignation on Sunday for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to topple the Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan.

The expansive surveillance of a young woman in Gujarat by the state's most senior police officers was "elaborate protection, not snooping", the BJP has claimed, as it battles allegations that the espionage was illegal and ordered by Narendra Modi, who is now running for Prime Minister.

Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde is expected to make a statement in the Rajya Sabha today on an alleged attempt to tap the phone of BJP leader Arun Jaitley, who is also Leader of Opposition in the upper house.

After being under the scanner for allegedly offering the Army Chief a bribe, Lieutenant General (retired) Tejinder Singh could be in for more trouble.

Phones of about 1,200 people, including political rivals, their family members and supporters, judges, journalists, and business persons were tapped by a special team in Telangana's Special Intelligence Bureau.

In an explosive revelation in the Telangana phone tapping and snooping row, ex-DCP Radhakrishna Rao has claimed devices belonging to media industry bigwigs, retired cops, and politicians (including from then-ruling BRS) were hacked.

A former DCP of the Commissioner's Task Force, a wing of Hyderabad Police, and another police official were questioned by the police in connection with a case of phone tapping and destroying certain computer systems and official data.

Former Telangana Intelligence Bureau chief T Prabhakhar Rao has been named as Accused No 1 in the phone-tapping case that has roiled the state ahead of a general election.

CBI chief Subodh Kumar Jaiswal has been summoned by the cyber cell of the Mumbai Police in connection with a phone-tapping and data leak case that had spawned a political row and a case being heard by the Bombay High Court.

As the Pegasus scandal rocks Parliament, a phone-tapping controversy has erupted in Bengal, where police today filed a case against BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari over claims he has information of calls to the police from Abhishek Banerjee's office.

The Congress demanded Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat's resignation on Sunday for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to topple the Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan.

The expansive surveillance of a young woman in Gujarat by the state's most senior police officers was "elaborate protection, not snooping", the BJP has claimed, as it battles allegations that the espionage was illegal and ordered by Narendra Modi, who is now running for Prime Minister.

Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde is expected to make a statement in the Rajya Sabha today on an alleged attempt to tap the phone of BJP leader Arun Jaitley, who is also Leader of Opposition in the upper house.

After being under the scanner for allegedly offering the Army Chief a bribe, Lieutenant General (retired) Tejinder Singh could be in for more trouble.