Don’t make public personal details of judges whose phones were tapped: Telangana HC

HYDERABAD : The Telangana High Court on Wednesday directed media houses to exercise restraint and refrain from disclosing the names or mobile phone numbers of judges or their family members whose phones were allegedly tapped during the previous BRS government.

Hearing a suo motu case, a bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice T Vinod Kumar expressed confidence that both print and electronic media would responsibly handle news related to the phone tapping case. The court took up the case suo motu following a news report on the confessional statement of suspended Additional SP Bhujanga Rao.