CID additional DG S.V. Ramana Murthy said that Venka Reddy, vice-president of Ind. Bharat Agencies of Maharashtra, had confessed to having committed the offence at the instance of other accused in the CBI joint director V.V. Lakshminarayana call records leak case. Venka Reddy had filed a complaint with the Mukhed police in Maharashtra alleging that he was receiving threat calls from three numbers including that of Mr Lakshminarayana and two of his colleagues. The complaint was endorsed by senior police officials and a photocopy of the same was given to a telecom department employee Hanumantha Rao as proof that the police required the call data for probing the case.
“He has been remanded to judicial custody. The other accused in the case are absconding and efforts are on to arrest them,” said Mr Ramana Murthy. A case of criminal conspiracy, cheating and Sections of the Information Technology Act was registered with city police CCS. The case was later transferred to the CID. Indust-rialist Raghurama Krishna Raju, the relative of KVP, is also an accused in the case. The HC had rejected his plea to quash the case. During investigation, the CID had found that call data was obtained fraudulently to implicate Mr Lakshminarayana and to destabilise investigations into some serious white collar crimes. CID alleged that Krishna Raju had contacted his friend M.V. Ramana Rao of MIC Electronics in Kushaiguda who in turn had got in touch with Hanumatha Rao. Rao had emailed the call data to Ramana Rao who had handed it over to Krsihna Raju.