IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla illegally tapped the phones of MVA leaders during her tenure at the State Intelligence Department to give political benefits to the opposition parties, the Colaba police have said in a 700-page charge sheet filed in the phone tapping case of Sanjay Raut and Eknath Khadse. The charge sheet, filed on Tuesday, has statements of 20 witnesses including senior police officers and government officials.

The charge sheet includes the statement of an intelligence officer who worked with Shukla. The officer claimed he had mentioned to Shukla, the then commissioner of the SID, that the numbers given to him for tapping belonged to NCP leader Eknath Khadse and Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, and that he could not tap phones of political leaders. As per his statement, Shukla told him, “Main commissioner hoon, bolti hoon toh laga surveillance par, [section] 419 [of the Telegraph Act] ke power se laga do.”