Hyderabad: A day after the ACB conducted searches on the residence of T.S. Umamaheswara Rao, ACP at the Central Crime Station (CCS). the investigation agency allegedly found links between him and other police officers including retired SP P. Radha Kishan Rao who was arrested in a phone tapping case.
Sources said the agency had kept a close vigil on Umamaheswara Rao for the past few months and obtained leads about his illegal activities. Umamaheswara Rao had allegedly got in touch with several senior police officers in dealing civil dispute cases.
Interestingly, Umamaheswara Rao kept some details of property transactions on his personal laptop. ACB officials, who registered the disproportionate assets (DA) case against the, allegedly found some documents in the name of “Sandeep”', a police officer. Hours after being taken into custody, the ACB officials shifted Umamaheswara Rao to the ACB headquarters where the investigation officer (IO) and ACB officers questioned the CCS ACP for amassing illegal properties.
Sources said that Umamaheswara Rao kept silent to most of the ACB’s questions. He said that the `37 lakh in cash which was found in house was a loan from friends but there no supporting documents.
It was also reported that the ACB officials allegedly took into consideration a complaint of Saran Choudhary, an NRI, which was sent to Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy in connection with illegal activities of Radha Kishan Rao and Umamaheswara Rao. In the complaint, Saran Choudhary alleged that the two officials had harassed him physically and encroached on a flat located in Banjara Hills.
Later, Umamaheswara Rao detained Saran Choudhary illegally in the CCS premises without registering any case and made the victim’s friend transfer `50 lakh in 2023. Umamaheswara Rao also held out a threat to Chowdhary to withdraw a writ petition filed against police harassment.
The ACB on Wednesday produced Umamaheswara Rao before the court which sent him to 14 days judicial remand. The ACB is likely to file a petition seeking police custody of the accused officer.
The ACB seized Rs 37 lakh cash, 600 grams gold, property documents related to immovable properties located at 17 different places worth Rs.3 crore and the market value is estimated worth Rs.50 crore. A team of officers would calculate the seized property.
