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Rashmi Shukla

IPS, Maharashtra cadre, 1988 batch, Serving 2024

No published career count.

  • Documented
  • One report
  • Years with no move on record

Shunted when the MVA took power and later booked over alleged phone-tapping of its leaders (FIRs quashed); as DGP, removed by the Election Commission on opposition complaints and reinstated after the vote.

The moves, and what came of them

Oldest first. Each fold is marked by how well the record holds it.

  1. Documented

    Commissioner, State Intelligence DepartmentCivil Defence (non-executive); later central deputation (ADG CRPF, then head of SSB)

    SID chief under Devendra Fadnavis (2014-19), she was shunted when the MVA came to power. After she left the state, three FIRs were registered in Pune and Mumbai in 2022 alleging she tapped the phones of opposition leaders Sanjay Raut, Eknath Khadse and Nana Patole; she called it political vendetta.

    Up against
    Maha Vikas Aghadi government, Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress Government: Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena), Maharashtra.
    Reported reason
    HT: shunted 'along with many other top officers'.
    The officer said
    In her High Court petition she said she was 'falsely implicated' and a victim of 'political vendetta' (LiveLaw).
    The other side said
    The complainants alleged the tapping was done under false pretexts; Patole said his phone was tapped in 2016-17 under the name of a narcotics suspect (LiveLaw).
    Outcome
    Bombay HC quashed two FIRs on 8 Sep 2023.
    What became of the matter
    Case closed. Justices AS Gadkari and Sharmila Deshmukh quashed the Colaba and Pune FIRs after the Advocate General said sanction to prosecute under s.197 CrPC had been refused, and Pune police had filed a closure report (LiveLaw). livelaw.in

    Hindustan Times, Nov 2024 · LiveLaw, Sep 2023

  2. 4 years with no move on record here.

  3. Documented

    Director General of Police, MaharashtraSent on leave during the assembly election; reinstated as DGP after it

    Two weeks before the 20 Nov 2024 assembly election, the Election Commission ordered her transfer after complaints from the Congress, NCP (SP) and Shiv Sena (UBT) alleging bias towards the BJP and citing the phone-tapping allegations. The state sent her on leave. After the results she was reinstated.

    Up against
    Nana Patole; Sanjay Raut; Sharad Pawar's NCP (SP), Opposition leaders who complained to the ECI, Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP (SP) Government: Eknath Shinde (Shiv Sena)-BJP-NCP(AP), Maharashtra.
    Reported reason
    IE: 'State Election Commission (SEC) officials, however, said that the EC order had not mentioned any reason for the transfer.'
    The officer said
    Shukla did not respond to HT.
    The other side said
    Devendra Fadnavis: 'While I do not wish to speak on the orders given by the ECI, I hope the Congress, NCP (SP) and Shiv Sena (UBT), who have prised the ECI, will not blame the poll body if the Mahayuti returns to power.' BJP's Ashish Shelar called Patole's allegations 'baseless' (HT).
    Outcome
    Reinstated as DGP on 25 Nov 2024 by a Home Department order 'since the election period was over' (IE).
    What became of the matter
    Reinstated. Returned to the post after the election. indianexpress.com

    The Indian Express, Nov 2024 · Hindustan Times, Nov 2024 · The Indian Express, Nov 2024