The Mumbai Police Cyber Cell has registered an FIR in the case of leaking of the phone tapping report prepared by Rashmi Shukla, the ex-Commissioner, State Intelligence Department. The case has been filed against unknown persons illegally obtained confidential letters and other technical confidential information from the State Intelligence Department. An offense has been registered against an unidentified person under Section 30 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, Section 43 (and), 66 of the Information Technology Act, 2008 and Section 5 of the Official Secrets Act, 1923.
This development comes a day after Maharashtra Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte submitted a report into the alleged police transfer racket to CM Uddhav Thackeray. Observing that no malpractice could be established in the report of the ex-State Intelligence Commissioner’s report, Kunte concluded that strict action can be taken against her if it is proven that she leaked the “top secret” letter. In a major development, which may bring much-needed relief to the Maha Vikas Aghadi government, Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte in his report on Thursday claimed that the former Additional Director General of Police (Intelligence) Rashmi Shukla may have leaked her confidential letter on the alleged corruption in transfers in the police department to Leader of the Opposition Devendra Fadnavis (BJP). Kunte took into account Shukla’s letter dated August 25, 2020, to the then Maharashtra DGP Subodh Jaiswal which was released in the public domain by Fadnavis two days ago.