Mumbai: CBI goes to special court for Rashmi Shukla phone tap records

MUMBAI: After a magistrate court rejected its plea, the CBI moved the special court seeking certain documents and digital evidence related to the phone taps allegedly made by former commissioner of state intelligence, Rashmi Shukla. The court on Thursday directed the state to file its reply.
During the hearing, the state told the special court that a related plea will be heard by the Bombay HC next week and, hence, the matter should be adjourned. The special court posted the matter for hearing on June 11.
On Wednesday, the HC had heard the related matter where the CBI had agreed “to hold its hands” on seeking certain documents from the state till June 9 in its investigation into its FIR against former home minister Anil Deshmukh.
The Mumbai Cyber Cell, BKC, had registered an FIR on March 26 against unknown persons over “leaking’’ of Shukla’s confidential report dated August 20, 2020, on the alleged politician-police nexus on transfers. The CBI registered an FIR on April 21 against Deshmukh under the Prevention of Corruption Act and sought the documents for probe.