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.
Weighty security used to be sent external the home of previous Maharashtra boss clergyman Fadnavis in Malabar Hill area of south Mumbai, where the group, containing Assistant Commissioner of Police Nitin Jadhav and two controllers, stretched around early afternoon, 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, in any case, on Saturday said a senior cop alluded as to illuminate him that police will go to his home to take the necessary measurements and there was once no need for him to visit the police headquarters.
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 help of IPS official Rashmi Shukla, when she used to be the nation brain chief, Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil had asserted last 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. What’s more, three letters have been shipped off Fadnavis, reminding him to show up sooner than the police. In any case, he had neglected to give any answer, he said.
A case was once enrolled underneath the Official Secrets Act at the BKC digital police headquarters here extreme a year contrary to unidentified people for purportedly wrongfully tapping phones and releasing individual records. The analysis used to be stopped via 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 found herself at the focal point of discussion after Fadnavis refered to a letter purportedly composed by utilizing her to the then Maharashtra Director General of Police about supposed debasement in moves in the police office. 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.
