Shinde- BJP Led Government To Make Rashmi Shukla DGP, On Whom Case Was Registered During Thackeray Government

Mumbai, 26th October 2022: During Uddhav Thackeray’s government, an FIR was registered against Maharashtra IPS officer Rashmi Shukla in the phone tapping case. Now the Eknath Shinde and BJP-led government is considering making her the DGP of the state or the police commissioner of Mumbai. According to a BJP minister it can be announced early next week.

Rashmi Shukla is a 1988 batch IAS officer, who is currently in Hyderabad as ADG of CRPF. She is the senior most IPS officer of Maharashtra after DG Hemant Nagrale. Hemant Nagrale is retiring on October 31.

Rashmi Shukla is also senior to IPS officer Rajneesh Seth, who is currently the DGP of Maharashtra. Rashmi Shukla is to retire in June 2024.

The said minister from BJP said that the vigilance clearance report would be sent to the central government on behalf of the state government. After this, permission will be sought from the Center to send her as the DG.

Rashmi Shukla has been the intelligence chief of Maharashtra and has been accused of tapping the phones of NCP leader Eknath Khadse and Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut. Colaba police had also registered a case against Rashmi Shukla in March this year. Shukla is alleged to have tapped the phones of many leaders in 2019 as the intelligence chief. It was then said that the SID i.e. the State Intelligence Department had approved the phone tapping, calling these leaders involved in anti-social activities.

There was a lot of controversy about this where NCP and Shiv Sena attacked the then Devendra Fadnavis government.