Hyderabad: Telangana Special Intelligence Bureau’s former chief T. Prabhakar Rao surrendered before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the phone tapping case on Friday.

A day after the Supreme Court’s direction, the retired IPS official surrendered before the SIT at the Jubilee Hills Police Station.

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the custodial interrogation of Prabhakar Rao for a week.

A bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and R. Mahadevan asked him to surrender for the purpose of custodial interrogation.

The bench directed that there should be no physical torture or hardship during the interrogation. It also allowed Prabhakar Rao to have food from his home as well as medication regularly.

The court passed the orders while hearing Prabhakar Rao’s petition for anticipato

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