Devendra Fadnavis has been asked not to appear at the BKC police station tomorrow in connection with a Phone-Tapping Investigation

In a phone tapping case, Mumbai police have urged BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis not to appear at the BKC police station tomorrow. The information came from the leader himself, who shared it on Twitter. He penned, "I just got a call from the Joint CP, Crime. He informed me that I was not obliged to visit the BKC police station. Instead, they will merely come to collect the necessary data. All of my Pune programmes for tomorrow have been cancelled. I'll be staying at my house. They are welcome to visit at any moment. Jai Maharashtra, Jai Hind."

 

He had got a notification earlier in the day informing him that he will be summoned by the Mumbai Police on Sunday in  connection with a phone-tapping investigation. Former Pune Police Commissioner Rashmi Shukla was accused by Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil on February 26 of tapping the phones of political figures Nana Patole, Bachchu Kadu, Sanjay Kakade, and Ashish Deshmukh.

 

In the Maharashtra phone tapping scandal, Pune Police filed an FIR against Rashmi Shukla on Saturday. The case was filed under the Indian Telegraph Act, Section 26. The Maharashtra government formed a three-member high-level committee in July last year, led by then-Director General of Police (DGP) Sanjay Pandey, to investigate the phone tapping incidents for five years from 2015 to 2019.

 

The high-level committee was tasked with determining whether or not the phones of various political leaders were illegally tapped for political or other reasons. The committee was instructed to give a full report on the investigation and to determine who, if anyone, is accountable for such incidents.

 

The report has now been presented to the government by the committee. The phone tapping occurred under the time of then-Pune Police Commissioner Rashmi Shukla, according to the investigation. As a result, Pune city police have filed an FIR against her under section 26 of the Indian Telegraph Act.

 

Several MLAs, including Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole, have accused the government of tapping their phones. After audio tapes supposedly showing a telephonic discussion between Union minister Gajendra Singh and Congress leaders surfaced in 2020, the phone tapping controversy arose.

 

 

Image Courtesy: Twitter @Dev_Fadnavis