Mumbai, April 8: Mumbai Police’s Colaba Police Station summoned Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut to appear before it on Friday, to record his statement with regard to a phone-tapping case. However, Raut has refused to record the statement.
Sanjay Raut won't appear before the police today, informed Mumbai Police. Earlier on Thursday, the statement of NCP leader Eknath Khadse was recorded.
On February 26, 2022, Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil claimed that former Pune Police Commissioner Rashmi Shukla had tapped the phones of political leaders like Nana Patole, Bachchu Kadu, Sanjay Kakade and Ashish Deshmukh.
Mumbai’s Colaba police station has registered a case against senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla in March this year. Rashmi Shukla has been questioned twice by Colaba Police Station.
Pune Police had registered an FIR against Rashmi Shukla in the Maharashtra phone tapping case. The case was registered under section 26 of the Indian Telegraph Act.
The high-level committee was tasked to find out whether the phones of various political leaders were tapped illegally for undesirable political or any other purpose.
An FIR has been filed by Pune city police against her under section 26 of the Indian Telegraph act.
There were allegations of phone tapping levelled by several MLAs including Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole. The controversy over phone tapping had erupted in 2020 after audio clips purportedly having a telephonic conversation between Union minister Gajendra Singh and Congress leaders surfaced.