By way of PTI
MUMBAI: The Mumbai Police probing the unlawful telephone tapping case towards senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla on Saturday recorded the remark of Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, an professional mentioned.
Raut’s remark was once recorded as a witness by means of officers of Colaba police station on the workplace of Shiv Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ in Central Mumbai, an afternoon after a realize was once served to him on this regard, the professional mentioned.
The professional mentioned Raut’s telephone was once allegedly tapped two occasions in 2019 by means of the state Intelligence Division, which was once then headed by means of Shula, when talks in regards to the formation of the MVA govt comprising Sena, NCP and Congress have been on after the result of the state Meeting polls.
Previous, Mumbai Police had recorded the remark of Nationalist Congress Birthday party chief Eknath Khadse within the case as his telephone was once additionally allegedly tapped all the way through the similar duration, the professional mentioned.
Maharashtra House Minister Dilip Walse-Patil had final month claimed that the telephones of 4 elected representatives have been tapped between 2015 and 2019 within the garb that they have been drug peddlers.
The Maharashtra govt had arrange a three-member panel headed by means of the then Director Common of Police Sanjay Pandey to habits an inquiry into the alleged telephone tapping.
Shukla, who was once posted as Pune police commissioner between March 2016 and July 2018, is at the moment on central deputation and posted as further director normal of Central Reserve Police Drive (CRPF) in Hyderabad.
The FIR was once filed towards Shukla below related sections of the Indian Telegraph Act for alleged unlawful tapping of telephones of politicians between 2015 and 2019 all the way through her tenure because the Pune police commissioner.