: 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 .