Bombay High Court quashes two FIRs against IPS Rashmi Shukla in alleged phone tapping case

Mumbai: In a major relief to Indian Police Service officer and Maharashtra's former intelligence chief Rashmi Shukla, the Bombay High Court, yesterday, quashed two FIRs registered against her in cases related to the alleged illegal tapping of phones of politicians. Rashmi Shukla is currently the Director General of Sashastra Seema Bal.

Two first information reports (FIRs) were filed against Shukla, one in Pune and another at Colaba in south Mumbai, for allegedly illegally tapping the phones of opposition leaders when Devendra Fadnavis was the chief minister of the



state.

The FIRs were registered when the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government was in power.

Shukla's counsel Mahesh Jethmalani informed the high court today that in the Pune FIR, the police had submitted a C-Summary report (case is neither false nor true) and had sought to close the case and in the Mumbai case, the government had refused to grant sanction to prosecute Shukla.

A division bench of Justices Ajey S Gadkari and Sharmila Deshmukh accepted this and quashed the two FIRs.