IPS officer Shukla was found guilty in phone tapping inquiry: Maha home minister
India Today
IPS officer Rashmi Shukla has been accused of tapping phones of politicians and bureaucrats by misleading her senior officials when she headed the state intelligence department.
Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse-Patil on Saturday claimed that a high-level probe had found that senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla had tapped phones illegally.
An FIR was registered against her following the report of this inquiry, he told reporters here.
Shukla has been accused of tapping phones of politicians and bureaucrats by misleading her senior officials when she headed the state intelligence department.
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Walse-Patil said the government had asked the state Director General of Police and Mumbai police commissioner to take appropriate action.
Their probe found Shukla guilty following which the FIR was registered against her at the Bund Garden police station in Pune, he said.
Phones of political leaders including state Congress chief Nana Patole, minister Bachchu Kadu, former MLA Ashish Deshmukh, former MP Sanjay Kakade and others were tapped, the home minister alleged.
