Hyderabad, Aug. 12 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao on Tuesday, August 12, sent a defamation notice to union minister of state Bandi Sanjay Kumar over the latter's remark on the phone tapping case.

KTR asked Kumar to apologise within 7 days from the date of the notice. It is worth noting that on August 8, Kumar accused the former Telangana minister of misusing the Special Investigation Bureau (SIB) and engaging in large-scale phone tapping during his tenure as minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD), Industries, and IT in the previous BRS government.

The union minister for state also claimed that thousands of phones, including those of political leaders, a High Court judge, the cu...