Senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla (IPS:1988:RJ) has been appointed as the new Director General of Police (DGP) in Maharashtra following the retirement of the incumbent DGP Rajnish Seth (IPS:1988:MH) on December 31. Prior to this appointment, she served as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and had previously held the position of Additional Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
Rashmi Shukla has an extensive career in the police service and has held key positions in Maharashtra, including serving as the Pune Police Commissioner and Director of the State Intelligence Wing. The decision to appoint her as the DGP comes more than three months after the Bombay High Court quashed two phone-tapping cases registered against her.
Shukla had faced charges in the first FIR in Mumbai for allegedly tapping the phones of Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut and NCP leader Eknath Khadse. In the second FIR in Pune, she was alleged to have tapped the phones of Congress leader Nana Patole. The Bombay High Court’s decision in favor of Shukla contributed to her appointment as the top police official in Maharashtra.
She has also been accused of leaking a classified report that exposed a nexus between some police officers and middlemen who offered transfers and postings for money. Shukla denies any wrongdoing and asserts that her actions were in the interest of national security and public service.
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