Police take ex-DCP into custody by Punjagutta police

The Punjagutta police took former DCP Task Force P Radha Kishan Rao into custody from Central Prison Chanchalguda. A local court had granted six-day custody of Radha Kishan to the Punjagutta police who filed a petition before the court.

The former DCP was arrested on March 29 in connection with the phonetapping case.

Radha Kishan is



accused of being part of a conspiracy with some other 

persons to develop the profiles of private persons unauthorisedly, clandestinely, and illegally in the Special Intelligence Bureau.

He had allegedly used the information in a partisan manner to favour a political party at the behest of some persons