Hyderabad, Feb. 21 -- A day after the Telangana High Court granted relief to former minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader T Harish Rao in the phone tapping case, an accused in the case alleged police harassment into confessing Rao's name.

T Vamsi Krishna, a former Aarogyasri employee and one of the accused has filed a petition claiming police were pressurising him to implicate Harish Rao and others in the case falsely. This comes a day after the Nampally court granted bail to Krishna and two others in the phone tapping case.

Advocate J Laxman, representing Krishna, submitted a handwritten affidavit in the 14th additional judicial magistrate court accusing assistant commissioner of police (ACP) S Mohan Kumar and deputy commiss...