Phone tapping accused booked in disproportionate asset case

HYDERABAD: N Bhujanga Rao, an accused in the alleged phone-tapping case, was booked by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in a disproportionate assets case on Wednesday.

According to officials, the ACB has launched simultaneous searches at 13 locations as part of the investigation.

The bureau said the Disproportionate Assets (DA) case was registered against him based on information gathered during the probe. Officials stated that he was found in possession of assets exceeding his known sources of income.


"We found he was in possession of assets which are more than his known source of income," sources said.

Bhujanga Rao had earlier spent a long period in judicial remand in connection with his alleged role in the phone tapping case.