By way of PTI
MUMBAI: Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut on Wednesday claimed the Centre is protective IPS officer Rashmi Shukla who’s being probed for alleged telephone tapping of sure political leaders. Chatting with newshounds right here, Raut mentioned be it Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole, himself or another leaders, all have been labelled “anti-social parts” and their telephones have been tapped.
Some other folks have been labelled as “drug peddlers and gangsters” and this took place when the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) govt used to be being shaped in November 2019, the Rajya Sabha MP claimed.
“Any person used to be carrying out surveillance on us and looking for out in regards to the formation of the brand new govt. Our privateness used to be invaded… One police officer, who is predicted to paintings impartially, used to be doing it to turn her loyalty to at least one political birthday party and a pacesetter. Now the Centre is protective her, like all the time. That is unlucky,” Raut mentioned with out naming Shukla, a former head of the State Intelligence Division (SID).
The senior IPS officer is going through an FIR in Mumbai and is being probed for allegedly striking the telephone numbers of Raut and previous BJP chief Eknath Khadse (who’s now within the NCP) beneath surveillance when she headed the SID.
The Pune police had additionally registered an FIR in opposition to Shukla in reference to alleged tapping of the telephones of Patole. Shukla served because the Pune police commissioner between March 2016 and July 2018.
She is recently posted with the Central Reserve Police Drive. In a plea filed within the Bombay Top Court docket in one of the most alleged telephone tapping circumstances, Shukla had claimed she used to be being “falsely implicated” and known as herself a sufferer of “political vendetta”.
