A group of the BKC cyber police here on Sunday reached senior BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis’s house to document his assertion in connection with a case of alleged unlawful tapping of phones, an official said.
Heavy security used to be deployed outside the home of former Maharashtra chief minister Fadnavis in Malabar Hill area of south Mumbai, where the team, comprising Assistant Commissioner of Police Nitin Jadhav and two inspectors, reached around noon, he said.
The Mumbai cyber police had in the past issued a note to Fadnavis, asking him to show up before them on Sunday in connection with the case. Fadnavis, however, on Saturday said a senior police officer referred to as to inform him that police will go to his residence to take the required statistics and there was once no want for him to visit the police station.
Phones of political leaders, along with country Congress chief Nana Patole, minister Bachchu Kadu, former MLA Ashish Deshmukh, former MP Sanjay Kakade and others had been tapped illegally with the aid of IPS officer Rashmi Shukla, when she used to be the country brain chief, Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil had alleged final month. “In the word issued to Fadnavis, police have stated that questionnaires had been beforehand sent to him in sealed envelopes in connection with the case, however he did no longer reply to them. Besides, notices had been additionally issued to him twice to are seeking his reply, but he had once more failed to reply,” the police legit said. In addition to this, three letters have been sent to Fadnavis, reminding him to appear earlier than the police. However, he had failed to give any reply, he said.
A case was once registered beneath the Official Secrets Act at the BKC cyber police station right here ultimate 12 months in opposition to unidentified humans for allegedly illegally tapping telephones and leaking personal documents. The criticism used to be lodged by way of the State Intelligence Department (SID). However, earlier than the FIR was registered, the then Maharashtra Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte had alleged in his inquiry report that IPS officer Rashmi Shukla had leaked the private report. Shukla is accused of tapping telephones of political leaders and senior officials illegally when she was once chief of the SID.
She discovered herself at the centre of controversy after Fadnavis cited a letter purportedly written by using her to the then Maharashtra Director General of Police about alleged corruption in transfers in the police department. The letter also had details of intercepted cellphone calls, main to an uproar with leaders of the Shiv Sena-led ruling coalition alleging that Shukla tapped phones without permission.
