Phone tapping case: IPS officer Rashmi Shukla moves Bombay High Court against FIR

Senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla moved the Bombay High Court on Monday seeking no coercive action against her in connection with an FIR registered by Mumbai police in a case of illegal phone tapping and alleged leaking of sensitive documents related to police postingsShuklas advocate Sameer Nangre sought an urgent hearing of the plea saying the petitioner a senior IPS officer of 1988 cadre was apprehending arrest in the case Nangre also sought a direction to the police to not take any coercive action against ShuklaThe approach of the State is to armtwist the petitioner by a bogus and frivolous case the plea alleged Shukla is currently serving as additional director general of the Central Reserve Police Forces CRPF South Zone and is posted in HyderabadAn FIR was registered under the Official Secrets Act at the BKC cyber police station in Mumbai against unidentified persons for allegedly tapping phones illegally and leaking certain confidential documents on the complaint filed by the Maharashtra Intelligence DepartmentThe alleged tapping of phones had taken place when Shukla headed the state intelligence department BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis had cited a letter purportedly written by Shukla to the then Director General of Police about alleged corruption in police transfersThe letter also had details of intercepted calls leading to an uproar with leaders of the Shiv Senaled ruling coalition alleging that Shukla tapped phones without permissionBefore registration of the FIR Maharashtra Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte had alleged in a report submitted to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray that it appears that Shukla herself had leaked the confidential report to FadnavisLast month the police issued two summons on April 26 and April 28 to Shukla asking her to appear before the BKC cyber department in Mumbai for recording her statement However Shukla had skipped the summonsOn Monday her advocate filed an application before the HCs registrar seeking an urgent hearing of the petition on May 4 before a division bench of Justices S S Shinde and Manish PitaleThe petitioner Shukla begs to approach the court for urgent reliefs of order of no coercive action by the police in the concerned FIR registered by the Cyber Crime Department Mumbai the application saidIt said Shukla exposed the alleged nexus between ministers and politicians and other gross corruption involved in assigning postings to police officersThis reveals the courage and integrity of the petitioner in performing her official duties and making her best endeavours to expose and eliminate corruption by bringing the guilty to book the application saidInstead of applauding and appreciating the work of the petitioner the government authorities are involved in framing the petitioner in a false criminal case it allegedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever