Hyderabad, June 14 -- The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the Telangana phone tapping case, grilled former deputy superintendent of police Praneeth Rao on Friday, June 13.

Rao was interrogated for a couple of hours, after which the SIT recorded his statement. Rao was reportedly questioned about instructions he received to destroy the hard disks that contained sensitive data from phone tapping conversation records.

Even though the former DSP tried to avoid answering, the SIT officials focused on getting inputs explaining the intensity of the case in which the then SIB officials violated the law by intercepting the phones of political leaders, celebrities, journalists and judges.

According to reports, when the accused explained...