Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president and Sircilla MLA, K. T. Rama Rao (KTR), served a legal notice to Union Minister of State for Home, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, demanding an unconditional apology for what he termed as “false, defamatory and slanderous” remarks accusing the MLA of indulging in phone tapping using the police.
The notice, issued by KTR’s legal counsel, alleges that Mr. Kumar accused him of misusing the Special Intelligence Branch (SIB) for large-scale phone tapping during his tenure as Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development, Industries and IT in the previous BRS government.
The allegations made at a press conference on August 8, 2025, reportedly included the claims that thousands of phones, including those of political leaders, a High Court judge, the current Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, and even members of former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s family were tapped for personal and political purposes.
The legal notice also mentioned that the Union Minister accused KTR of misusing phone tapping for personal and political purposes. It added Mr. Kumar alleged that individuals were falsely linked to Maoists to justify surveillance, private conversations between spouses were monitored and general public avoided regular calls, preferring encrypted apps like WhatsApp, FaceTime, and Signal due to fear.
