Mumbai: The cyber police on Friday registered a case under the Official Secrets Act against an unknown person for illegal tapping of phones and leaking findings of secret documents.
The State Intelligence Department on Friday filed a complaint against an unknown person for allegedly getting hold of secret documents and technical data from its office related to phone-tapping amid allegations of cash for police transfers and promotions in Maharashtra. The case will be probed by the cyber police at BKC.
The complaint was filed against an unknown person but a senior IPS officer told that it pertains to the controversy related to IPS officer Rashmi Shukla‘s alleged interception of phone calls by “misusing” permission given by the state government.
The case will be investigated by the Mumbai cyber police at BKC.
State chief secretary Sitaram Kunte has alleged in his report to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray that the IPS officer may have leaked her confidential report on alleged corruption in transfers in the Maharashtra police department to BJP functionary Devendra Fadnavis. Kunte in his five-page report submitted on Thursday mentioned that the officer had unauthorisedly tapped phones in 2020 and had later apologised for it.
Mumbai police spokesperson, DCP S Chaitanya, said that the case has been registered under the Official Secrets Act, 1923, under Section 30 of the Indian Telegraph Act (retaining a message delivered by mistake) and under Section 43 (B) of the IT Act (downloading, copying or extracting of any data, computer database or information from such computer, computer system or computer network including information or data held or store).