BRS accuses Revanth Reddy govt of revenge politics, conspiracy to jail senior leaders

BRS leader RS Praveen Kumar accused the Revanth Reddy government of politically targeting BRS leaders through false cases and prolonged phone-tapping investigations, warning of public anger over alleged harassment of a retired IPS officer

Hyderabad: BRS general secretary RS Praveen Kumar on Thursday charged the Revanth Reddy government with conspiring to jail top BRS leaders including K Chandrashekhar Rao, KT Rama Rao and T Harish Rao among others under false charges. He warned that public anger would erupt against the Congress government, if false cases and political witchhunts continue.

Speaking to mediapersons at Telangana Bhavan on Thursday, Praveen Kumar said Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, who was driven by political vendetta and political obsession, was dragging investigation into phonetapping allegations and harassing former IPS officer T Prabhakar Rao to name them.

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The Congress government was fabricating cases and misusing the phone-tapping investigation to target opponents, he said, adding that Prabhakar Rao was an outstanding intelligence officer, but was being tortured in custody and pressured to name BRS leaders.

“Nowhere in India has a senior IPS officer been interrogated for 14 days,” he said.

Praveen Kumar accused the government of turning the probe into a daily serial, forming multiple Special Investigation Teams (SITs), despite no evidence emerging after questioning 350 witnesses. He questioned why the then Chief Secretary, DGP and Intelligence Chief were not named as accused if procedures were violated. He sought to know whether the Revanth Reddy government was not tapping phones of the Ministers and the opposition parties.

Urging officials against crossing the lines and torturing a retired IPS officer to appease their political bosses, he asked why IAS and IPS associations were remaining silent on the harassment of a retired civil servant who performed his duty strictly following the law.