# Telangana phone-tapping case: SIT summons Congress leader Manavatha Roy 2026-08-21T00:49:02+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Hyderabad: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has issued a notice to senior Congress leader Dr Koturi Manavatha Roy to appear for questioning in the phone-tapping case. He was summoned as a victim and must report to the old Hyderabad Police Commissionerate in Bashirbagh at 1 pm on Friday. The case dates to March 10, 2024, and was registered under the Indian Penal Code, the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act and the Information Technology Act at Punjagutta Police Station. The chargesheet, filed in June 2024, named six people: former SIB chief T Prabhakar Rao, Deputy Superintendent of Police D Praneeth Rao, Additional Superintendents N Bhujanga Rao and M Thirupathanna, former task force officer P Radha Kishan Rao and businessman A Shravan Kumar. Praneeth Rao, Thirupathanna, Bhujanga Rao and Radhakishan Rao were arrested and are in custody. Prabhakar Rao and Shravan Kumar had fled to the US. Others who have already appeared before the SIT include former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, BRS working president KT Rama Rao, former minister T Harish Rao and former Rajya Sabha member J Santosh Kumar. ## Indian Opinion Analysis The case exposes the scale of political surveillance during the BRS government, with victims including the current Chief Minister when he was in opposition. A serving judge was also among those tapped, raising questions about executive overreach into the judiciary. The SIT is now calling victims, not just accused, indicating the probe is widening beyond the six named in the chargesheet. Former CM KCR and his family have already appeared, so Manavatha Roy's questioning will test how far the SIT goes in documenting political vendetta. The next milestone is whether the SIT files a supplementary chargesheet or recommends a trial. ## Coverage - siasat.com leads with a procedural development, attributes facts to the chargesheet without editorial stance This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: K Chandrasekhar Rao, Koturi Manavatha Roy, SIT, Special Investigation Team, Telangana Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/telangana-phone-tapping-case-sit-summons-congress-leader-manavatha-roy/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/telangana-phone-tapping-case-sit-summons-congress-leader-manavatha-roy/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/