Illegal cellphone tapping case: Mumbai cops file Sanjay Raut’s assertion

By PTI

MUMBAI: The Mumbai Police probing the unlawful cellphone tapping case towards senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla on Saturday recorded the assertion of Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, an official mentioned.

Raut’s assertion was recorded as a witness by officers of Colaba police station on the workplace of Shiv Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ in Central Mumbai, a day after a discover was served to him on this regard, the official mentioned.

The official mentioned Raut’s cellphone was allegedly tapped two instances in 2019 by the state Intelligence Department, which was then headed by Shula, when talks concerning the formation of the MVA authorities comprising Sena, NCP and Congress have been on after the outcomes of the state Assembly polls.

Earlier, Mumbai Police had recorded the assertion of Nationalist Congress Party chief Eknath Khadse within the case as his cellphone was additionally allegedly tapped throughout the identical interval, the official mentioned.

Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse-Patil had final month claimed that the telephones of 4 elected representatives have been tapped between 2015 and 2019 within the garb that they have been drug peddlers.

The Maharashtra authorities had arrange a three-member panel headed by the then Director General of Police Sanjay Pandey to conduct an inquiry into the alleged cellphone tapping.

Shukla, who was posted as Pune police commissioner between March 2016 and July 2018, is presently on central deputation and posted as further director common of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Hyderabad.

The FIR was filed towards Shukla underneath related sections of the Indian Telegraph Act for alleged unlawful tapping of telephones of politicians between 2015 and 2019 throughout her tenure because the Pune police commissioner.