The Telangana High Court today extended the validity of its interim order to not arrest former minister Harish Rao in the phone-tapping case, to January 28.
The court passed these orders while hearing a petition filed by Rao against a case registered on the basis of a complaint filed by real estate businessman Gadagoni Chakradhar Goud.
The court also issued notices to Goud to file a counter in the case.
It then posted the matter to January 28 for further hearing.
Goud, a real estate businessman and Congress leader from Siddipet, had lodged a complaint at the Panjagutta police station on December 1, 2023, alleging that Rao had tapped his phone and threatened him when he (Rao) was a minister. A case was registered against Rao under sections 120(B), 386, 409 and 506 r/w 34 IPC and 66 of the IT Act. Rao had then approached the High Court seeking quashing of the FIR registered against him and a direction to not arrest him.
The High Court had earlier directed the police not to arrest Rao. It also issued an interim order to the Panjagutta police not to take any strict action against him.
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