Mumbai police summons CBI Chief for probe in illegal phone tapping case

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Mumbai: The Mumbai Police has summoned the CBI Director Subodh Jaiswal for the probe into the illegal phone tap case on Saturday, said officials. Vide an email, the CBI Chief has been asked to come here on October 14th for recording his version in the matter which had sparked a massive political row after it leaked out in March this year.

He was the DGP of Maharashtra at the time of alleged phone tapping took place in the State at the time of BJP ruling. At the time the then Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Government the former State Intelligence Department was headed by IPS officer Rashmi Shukla, during the tenure.

Both IPS officers have been transferred out of the State and Shukla has already recorded her statement with the Mumbai Police in this regard. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s Maha Vikas Aghadi Government had conducted a preliminary enquiry and later appointed a three member probe panel to investigate all the phone-tapping cases ordered during the erstwhile BJP led regime.

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