Mumbai Apr 26 PTI Mumbai Police on Tuesday submitted a charge sheet against senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla in an alleged phone tapping case before a court here an official saidThe over 700-page charge sheet contains statements of at least 20 persons including Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut and NCP leader Eknath Khadse whose phones were allegedly tapped illegally when Shukla headed the State Intelligence Department the official saidA First Information Report was registered against Shukla under the Indian Telegraph Act and relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code at Colaba Police Station here on the complaint of Additional Commissioner of Police Special BranchAccording to the complaint the phones of Khadse who was then with the BJP were kept under surveillance for two monthsSimilarly Rauts phones were under illegal surveillance when talks were underway between the Shiv Sena and Congress-NCP for the formation of government in Maharashtra after the 2019 Assembly polls police claimedCurrently Shukla is on central deputation and posted as additional director general of the Central Reserve Police Force CRPF in Hyderabad PTI DC KRK KRK

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 20 (ANI): Mumbai police on Wednesday said that the phones of Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut and NCP leader Eknath Khadse were tapped on the pretext of them being anti-social elements.

Nagpur Mar 24 PTI Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole has filed a Rs 500 crore defamation suit in a civil court here against IPS officer and former state intelligence chief Rashmi Shukla and others for alleged illegal tapping of his phone In the suit filed recently Patole also sought a permanent injunction to stop the misuse of information collected through alleged illegal phone tapping On Wednesday civil judge V B Gore issued notices to Shukla and others and asked them to file a reply before April 12 Shukla is presently on central deputation and posted as additional director general of the Central Reserve Police Force CRPF in Hyderabad Apart from Shukla notices have been served to police inspector technical analysis department at Pune crime branch Vaishali Chandgude state home departments additional chief secretary and police commissioners of Pune and Nagpur Patole who is an MLA from Bhandara district has alleged that the previous Maharashtra government headed by BJP conspired against him for political motives He filed the case through the state Congresss legal cell chairman Ravi Jadhav and secretary Vaibhav Jagtap They were represented in the court by counsel Satish Uke Notably the Mumbai police had recorded Shuklas statement in connection with the case of alleged illegal tapping of phones An FIR was registered against Shukla by the Colaba police in Mumbai earlier this month under the Indian Telegraph Act and relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code following a complaint by senior police officer Rajiv Jain who accused her of having put the phone numbers of Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut and NCP leader Eknath Khadse under surveillance Earlier the Pune police had also registered an FIR against Shukla in connection with alleged illegal tapping of the phones of Patole when a BJP-led government was in power in the state The cyber wing of the Mumbai crime branch had also registered an FIR last year against unidentified persons over alleged phone tapping and leak of confidential documents about police transfers during Shuklas tenure as state intelligence department chief PTI COR GK GK

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 13 (ANI): Amid the row over the transfer-posting case, Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil on Sunday said the Opposition is doing politics on this matter.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 26 (ANI): Former Pune Police Commissioner Rashmi Shukla tapped phones of leaders like Nana Patole, Bachchu Kadu, Sanjay Kakade and Ashish Deshmukh, said Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil on Saturday.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 26 (ANI): Pune Police on Saturday registered an FIR against former city Police Commissioner Rashmi Shukla in the Maharashtra phone tapping case. The case was registered under section 26 of the Indian Telegraph Act.

Pune Feb 26 PTI Pune police have registered a case against IPS officer Rashmi Shukla in connection with the case of alleged illegal phone tapping an official said on Saturday Shukla who is presently on central deputation and posted as additional director general of Central Reserve Police Force CRPF in Hyderabad was former police commissioner of Pune A case has been registered against Rashmi Shukla at Bund Garden police station here in the case of alleged illegal phone tapping She was booked under section 26 of the Indian Telegraph Act the official said PTI SPK NP NP

Bhadradri Kothagudem (Telangana) [India], December 2 (ANI): Telangana Director General of Police (DGP) Mahender Reddy held a high-level meeting with top CRPF officials here on Wednesday to deal with the Maoist issue.

Mumbai Nov 18 PTI IPS officer Rashmi Shukla appeared before the Koregaon Bhima Inquiry Commission on Thursday in compliance with a summon issued to her in connection with the 2018 case of violence at the war memorial in Pune but former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh remained absent Though Shukla appeared before the panel her statement could not be recorded as she sought additional time to file an affidavit Shukla told the commission that she was yet to receive some documents from the Pune police related to the Elgar Parishad event that was organised a day before the violence The next date for Shuklas deposition is yet to be decided The two-member probe commission headed by retired chief justice of the Calcutta High Court J N Patel and also comprising former Maharashtra chief secretary Sumit Mullick had issued summons to both Rashmi Shukla and Param Bir Singh on October 22 this year Singh was Maharashtras Additional Director General Law and Order in 2018 and Shukla was the Pune police commissioner when the violence took place at Koregaon Bhima in Pune district Shukla is now Additional Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force CRPF and posted at Hyderabad A magistrates court in Mumbai on Wednesday declared Param Bir Singh a proclaimed offender in an extortion case registered against him and some other police officers in the city Singh currently posted as the Director General of Home Guards and facing multiple extortion cases attended his office last in May after which he went on leave The state police had told the Bombay High Court in October that his whereabouts were not known As per the Pune police violence broke out between caste groups near the war memorial during the bicentennial anniversary of the 1818 battle of Koregaon Bhima on January 1 2018 Dalit organisations commemorate the victory of the East India Company over the Peshwa of Pune in the battle because British forces included soldiers from the oppressed Mahar community But some right-wing organisations had opposed the celebration leading to the violence in 2018 One person had died and several others including 10 police personnel were injured in the incident PTI AYA GK GK

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 18 (ANI): Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Rashmi Shukla appeared before Bhima Koregaon inquiry commission on Thursday to record her statements in connection with the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence case.