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  • Centre protective IPS officer Rashmi Shukla in telephone tapping case: Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut

    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”.

  • Telephone tapping case: Eknath Khadse seems prior to Mumbai police to file observation as witness

    Via PTI

    MUMBAI: NCP chief Eknath Khadse on Thursday gave the impression prior to the Colaba police right here to file his observation as a witness within the case registered towards senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla for alleged unlawful tapping of politicians’ telephones, an legit mentioned.

    Khadse reached the Colaba police station in south Mumbai round 11 am, the place his observation is being recorded through a police inspector-rank officer, he mentioned.

    The FIR towards Shukla was once registered on the Colaba police station in March beneath the Indian Telegraph Act and related sections of the Indian Penal Code, following a grievance through senior police officer, who accused her of getting put the telephone numbers of Khadse, a former BJP chief, and Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut beneath surveillance.

    The alleged unlawful telephone tapping had taken position when Shukla headed the State Intelligence Division (SID), police have mentioned.

    As consistent with the grievance, Khadse’s telephone was once allegedly tapped two times in 2019, when he was once with the BJP.

    He joined the NCP in October 2020. “Aside from Khadse, the telephone of Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut was once additionally tapped right through the formation of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) executive (in November 2019),” the police legit mentioned.

    According to the grievance lodged through Further Commissioner of Police (Particular Department), a case was once registered towards Shukla, he mentioned.

    “As investigation into the case is on, the Colaba police had referred to as Khadse to file his observation as a witness within the case.

    Accordingly, the NCP chief visited the police station, the place his observation is being recorded,” he mentioned.

    Shukla is at this time on central deputation and posted as further director normal of the Central Reserve Police Pressure (CRPF) in Hyderabad.

    The Pune police have additionally registered an FIR towards Shukla in reference to alleged unlawful tapping of the telephones of Congress chief Nana Patole when a BJP-led executive was once in energy within the state. Patole is now state Congress leader.

  • Bombay HC grants intervening time coverage to IPS officer Rashmi Shukla until March 25 in telephone tapping case

    Through PTI

    MUMBAI: The Bombay Prime Courtroom on Friday restrained the Pune police from taking any coercive motion towards IPS officer Rashmi Shukla until March 25 in reference to the FIR registered towards her just lately in an alleged telephone tapping case.

    A bench of Justices S S Shinde and Nitin Borkar mentioned that Shukla deserved to be granted coverage from arrest within the case till additional orders, since prima facie it gave the impression that she have been “singled out” within the provide FIR registered towards her ultimate week through the Bund Lawn police station in Pune.

    The bench additionally famous in its order that the mentioned FIR have been registered towards Shukla after a substantial extend.

    It took word of Shukla’s suggest and senior recommend Mahesh Jethmalani that despite the fact that the alleged incident of unlawful telephone tapping had taken position over 3 years in the past, the Pune police’s FIR used to be registered towards Shukla handiest on February 25 this yr.

    Jethmalani additional mentioned that whilst a number of different officials of the Maharashtra police have been fascinated by acquiring the sanction for placing positive telephone numbers below surveillance, the FIR have been registered handiest towards Shukla.

    The Maharashtra executive’s suggest Y P Yagnik, alternatively, adversarial Shukla’s request for intervening time coverage from arrest.

    He additional sought a while to record a respond to her plea pronouncing {that a} reproduction of the petition have been served to him handiest on Thursday.

    Yagnik prompt the excessive court docket to not go any intervening time orders at the plea.

    The bench, alternatively, mentioned that Shukla had made a case have compatibility for ad-interim aid and that during passing its order, the excessive court docket used to be simply following the mandate of the Splendid Courtroom.

    “We will be able to go suitable orders. As in step with the petitioner’s submissions, you (state police) are submitting the FIR after three-and-a-half years of the alleged explanation for motion,” the HC mentioned.

    “Is it now not a case of malafide motion that whilst it seems that a number of officials are concerned, the FIR is filed towards just one officer? She is a serving IPS officer, maintaining a accountable publish in Andhra Pradesh. The place is the scope of her absconding?” it mentioned.

    Whilst Yagnik argued that the court docket used to be taking into consideration “just one aspect of the case,” Jethmalani argued that Shukla have been singled out and subsequently, prayers within the petition deserved attention.

    Jethmalani additional mentioned that despite the fact that a lot of officials have been concerned within the strategy of alleged surveillance and speak to interception at the foundation that the mentioned telephone holders have been supplying narcotics to school scholars, no person else have been named within the mentioned FIR.

    The senior attorney additionally informed the HC that not one of the telephone numbers allegedly intercepted have been registered within the title of any politicians.

    The HC then mentioned that prima facie, it used to be “satisfied” that Shukla deserved to be granted coverage till additional orders.

    “Initially, there’s a extend in registering the FIR. Secondly despite the fact that different officials have been fascinated by acquiring sanction for the surveillance of positive telephone numbers, FIR is handiest towards the petitioner,” the excessive court docket mentioned in its order.

    “Thirdly, the petitioner is a high-ranking officer and is occupying a accountable publish of ADG with the CRPF, Hyderabad. It’s not likely that she’s going to abscond. Subsequently, she must be given coverage,” it mentioned.

    The HC bench additionally recorded in its order that Jethmalani, at the directions from Shukla, mentioned that she used to be prepared to increase “complete cooperation” to the police in its probe within the case.

    The HC granted two weeks to the Pune police to record its respond to Shukla’s plea.

    It posted the topic for additional listening to on March 25 and mentioned that no coercive motion should be taken towards Shukla within the case till then.

    Shukla, who used to be posted as Pune police commissioner between March 2016 and July 2018, is at this time on central deputation and posted as further director basic of Central Reserve Police Pressure (CRPF) in Hyderabad.

    The FIR used to be 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.

    Looking for to quash the FIR, the IPS officer has mentioned in her plea that she used to be being “falsely implicated” within the case and that she used to be a sufferer of “political vendetta”.