AP data theft: SIT claims IT Grids also has Telangana data in app

HYDERABAD: The Telangana police on Thursday claimed that it has found data related to the state in its investigation into the alleged data theft by IT Grids India Pvt Ltd, the software company which created the ‘Sevamitra’ app for the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) to collect voter data on the polling-booth level.

Stephen Ravindra, inspector general of police (Hyderabad Range), who is heading the special investigation team (SIT) formed by the state government a day earlier to investigate the alleged data theft by IT Grids, however did not specify as to what information from Telangana is with the software company.

In a parallel development, the Thulluru police in Guntur district of AP also registered a case, based on a complaint by AP minister Kimidi Kala Venkat Rao (and TDP AP unit president), against unidentified officials of the Telangana police and leaders of the main opposition YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) for conspiring against his party.