The CID has found that an employee working with the telecom department at Nagpur provided the call data on CBI J-D V.V. Lakshiminarayana to industrialist R.R. Krishna Raju.
This was brought to the notice of the AP High Court by N. Sridhar Reddy, CID special counsel.
While opposing a plea by Raju seeking quashing of the case registered against him, Mr Reddy said that the call data was obtained fraudulently to implicate the CBI J-D and to destabilise the investigation into some serious white collar crimes.
He said Raju contacted one of his friends M.V. Ramana Rao of MIC Electronics, Kushaiguda, who, in turn contacted K. Hanumanth Rao, an employee of DOT at Nagpur, who emailed it Ramana Rao. It was later handed over to Raju on a memory stick.
He said one K.V. Reddy, V-P of a firm owned by Raju, lodged a complaint with Mukhed police that he had received threatening calls from three numbers, including those of the J-D and his two colleagues. He also obtained an endorsement on his complaint.
A photo-copy of the complaint, with the endorsement, was given to Rao, who put it in the office records to show that the data was requisitioned by the police.