Senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla was questioned for over 2 hours in the alleged illegal phone tapping case
Rashmi Shukla
The Colaba police on Wednesday recorded the statement of senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla, over the alleged illegal phone tapping during her tenure as State Intelligence Department (SID).
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Earlier this month, Shukla was booked by the Colaba police under the Indian Telegraph Act and relevant sections of Indian Penal Code. The FIR was registered soon after Sanjay Pandey took charge as the Mumbai Commissioner of Police.
A complaint was given by Special Branch Additional Commissioner Rajive Jain, alleging that the phones of Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut and Nationalist Congress Party leader Eknath Khadse, were under surveillance by Shukla.
According to sources, this happened in 2019, when Maha Vikas Aghadi leaders were in talks to form the government.
Following the FIR, Shukla moved the Bombay High Court and was granted interim relief from coercive action till April 1. The court asked her to cooperate with the investigation. Based on the court’s order, she reached the Colaba police station on Wednesday at around 11 am. She left at 1.40 pm.
A similar FIR was also registered against her by the Pune police for allegedly tapping the phones of Congress leader Nana Patole. Shukla is currently posted in Hyderabad as additional director general (ADG) of CRPF.
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