Mumbai Police books IPS officer Rashmi Shukla for alleged phone taping

New Delhi, March 5

The Mumbai Police has registered an FIR against IPS officer Rashmi Shukla in case of alleged phone tapping.

In a case registered at the Colaba police station, the police have booked Shukla under Section 165 (public servant obtaining any valuable thing, without consideration, from a person concerned in any proceeding or business transacted by such public servant) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 26 of the Telegraph Act.

Shukla is currently posted as Additional Director General of Police at Central Reserve Police Force in Hyderabad.

This is the second FIR against Shukla after Pune Police booked her for alleged phone tapping. In Mumbai case, she is accused of taping phones of Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut and NCP’s Eknath Khadse.

After the alleged reports of Shukla taping the phones came to the fore, the Mumbai Police had begun an inquiry against her. 

A three-member committee headed by then DGP Sanjay Pandey was formed to probe allegations of phone tapping leveled against Shukla.

The officials stated that the inquiry committee had reportedly found that during her posting in the state intelligence department, she had tapped phone calls of Raut and Kahdse. 

During inquiry, Shukla’s role was identified in tapping the phone calls of state Congress president Nana Patole, due to which an FIR was registered against her in Pune on February 25. Shukla was the Pune City Police commissioner between March 2016 and July 2018, when she is alleged to have done the phone tapping.
 Subsequently, the committee found her responsible for tapping the phone calls of Raut and Khadse. 

The police suspect that IPS Shukla had allegedly taped phones of more persons during the same period.