IPS officer ignored warning in Raut, Khadse phone tapping issue, say Mumbai police
India Today
Mumbai police in a chargesheet claimed that senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla ignored a subordinate's warning to tap the phones of Sanjay Raut and Eknath Khadse.
The chargesheet filed by Mumbai police in the Sanjay Raut and Eknath Khadse phone tapping case presents the statement of an assistant commissioner of police-rank officer against senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla as a crucial piece of evidence.
On Tuesday, Colaba police filed a 750-page-long chargesheet against Shukla for illegally tapping the phones of Sanjay Raut and Eknath Khadse.
The ACP's statement is part of the chargesheet. He worked under Shukla while she served as the State Intelligence Department (SID) commissioner.
In his statement, the ACP told the police that he had warned Shukla that she was flouting the rules by recording the phone conversations of NCP and Shiv Sena leaders like Eknath Khadse and Sanjay Raut.
At that time, Shukla ignored his suggestions and continued tapping the phones of the two leaders. She had purportedly replied that she had powers to record conversation under section 419-A of the Indian Telegraph Act.
Besides this, then additional chief secretary (home) Sanjay Kumar, in his reply to the police, said he was kept in the dark about phone tapping of politicians.
Kumar said that Shukla mentioned the names ‘Khadasne’ for Eknath Khadse and ‘S Rahate’ for Sanjay Raut. Both of them were said to be involved in anti-social activities and hence their phones were tapped.
