India, Nov. 2 -- The phone-tapping case against BRS legislator and former minister T. Harish Rao has been shifted from Panjagutta police station in Hyderabad to Siddipet One Town police station, where a fresh FIR was registered on Saturday, police said. Officials said the move was made on jurisdictional grounds because the alleged offence took place in Siddipet. The case had been handled by the Panjagutta police since the complaint was received in December 2024.

The complaint was filed by Gadagoni Chakradhar Goud, founder of the Farmers First Foundation, who was the Congress candidate from Siddipet in the 2023 Assembly polls. In a complaint dated December 1, 2024, he alleged that both his and his wife's phones were intercepted during the...