The Supreme Court on Tuesday, October 14, directed former chief of Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) in Telangana T Prabhakar Rao, an accused in the phone-tapping case, to submit the password of his iCloud account to the state police in the presence of forensic experts.

A bench comprising Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan also extended interim protection from coercive action to Rao and directed him to appear before the investigation officer and cooperate in the investigation.

During the hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the court that the investigation was not progressing due to Rao’s “non-cooperation” and alleged that he had formatted electronic devices and destroyed vital evidence while under the court’s protective order.

”He was intercepting phones of important peopl

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