NCP seeks to know who asked IPS officer Rashmi Shukla to tap MVA leaders' phones
The Hindu
"We suspect that phones were tapped illegally to provide critical information about the MVA to the BJP," Mahesh Tapase said
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on March 5 sought to know if the BJP ‘ordered’ IPS officer Rashmi Shukla to tap the phones of leaders of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition.
It happened at a "crucial juncture" when a new government was taking shape in Maharashtra in 2019, said the State NCP's chief spokesperson Mahesh Tapase.
"We suspect that phones were tapped illegally to provide critical information about the MVA to the BJP," he said.
Two FIRs have been registered against Ms. Shukla in Pune and Mumbai for allegedly tapping the phones of Congress leader Nana Patole, NCP leader Eknath Khadse and Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut when she headed the State Intelligence Department.
"Now that an offense has been registered, people of Maharashtra would like to know at whose behest this illegal tapping was done. Did somebody from the BJP give instructions to Shukla to tap the phones of MVA leaders?" said Mr. Tapase.
The MVA, a coalition of the Shiv Sena, the Congress and the NCP, came to power in 2019 after the Sena parted ways with the BJP.