Hyderabad, March 26 -- Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) senior vice-president Niranjan Reddy wrote to Telangana Director General of Police Ravi Gupta (DGP) alleging that senior policemen and bureaucrats misused their powers to phone-tap and snoop on chief minister Revanth Reddy when he was the opposition leader earlier.

In his letter, Niranjan Reddy alleged that SIB officials hired a house near Revanth Reddy's house and reportedly hired a device brought from Israel to record his conversations. He questioned the necessity for having used such a device. "Moreover, it is known that it was brought without the permission of the concerned Union Home Ministry,".

The TPCC senior vice-president also named IAS officers Somesh Kumar, Ar...