I have been made scapegoat in phone call leakage row: IPS officer

Rashmi Shukla has moved Bombay HC seeking quashing of FIR

IPS officer Rashmi Shukla told the Bombay High Court on Friday that she was made a scapegoat in the alleged leakage of phone calls regarding transfers of police officials. A Division Bench of Justices S.S. Shinde and N.J. Jamadar was hearing a criminal petition filed by Ms. Shukla seeking to quash the FIR and charges against her under the Indian Telegraph Act and The Official Secrets Act. The FIR filed by an unidentified person has booked Ms. Shukla for leaking confidential documents related to corruption in police transfers in Maharashtra. Senior advocate Mahesh Jethamalani, representing Ms. Shukla, contended that she was illegally transferred from the State Intelligence Department as Director General Civil Defence, a post that did not exist prior to her transfer. Mr. Jethamalani said, “I have not challenged that, but I am pointing this out to show mala fides. Ms. Shukla has not been paid since January. This is the treatment meted out to one of the most upright officers.”