Hyderabad, Jan. 21 -- The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Hyderabad police probing the allegations of phone-tapping during the previous Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) regime on Tuesday grilled senior BRS leader and former minister T Harish Rao for nearly seven hours, people familiar with the matter said.

Harish Rao, who was served notices on Monday asking him to appear for questioning in the case, came to Jubilee Hills police station at around 11 am. He was grilled by SIT authorities, including assistant commissioner of police P Venkatagiri and superintendent of police M Ravinder Reddy.

Tight security arrangements were put in place in and around the Jubilee Hills Police Station throughout the proceedings to prevent any law-and-orde...