Sanjay Raut and Eknath Khadse's phones were monitored to establish they were anti-social elements, according to cops

Under the Telegraph Act, Mumbai Police initiated an investigation into an illegal phone tapping complaint filed against senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla. According to allegations, Raut Patole's phone was tapped under the names 'Amjad Khan,' 'Nijamuddin Babu Shaikh,' Deshmukh as 'Raghu Chorge,' and 'Hina Salunkhe,' and Kakade's phone was tapped under the names 'Tabrej Sutar,' and 'Abhijit Nayar,' and all three were allegedly involved in 'narcotic. 

 

Shukla has also been charged with illegal phone spying in Pune. The Mumbai Police said on Wednesday that the mobile phones of Shiv Sena MP and leader Sanjay Raut and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Eknath Khadse were tapped on the pretext of them being 'anti-social elements,' as part of an investigation into the illegal phone-tapping case filed against senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla under the Telegraph Act.

 

When Shukla was in command of the State Intelligence Department (SID), she was accused of illegally tapping the phones of Raut and Khadse. During the investigation, it was discovered that some other names were cited as 'anti-social elements' in the SID letter written to the Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Home, seeking phone tapping, which was the reason that the ACS allowed it, according to Mumbai Police. According to The Free Press Journal, Khadse's phone was tapped for 67 days, while Raut's was tapped for 60 days.

 

Khadse left the BJP to join the NCP in October 2020, citing former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for damaging his political career. Both leaders, according to Raut, were wrongly accused by then-SID Commissioner Rashmi Shukla. "During the government formation in 2019, the then-SID commissioner Rashmi Shukla fraudulently labelled all of us whose phones were tapped as anti-social elements," he added. "Our privacy has been violated." "Policemen who work for a political party are protected by the Centre," Raut remarked.

 

 

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