The Bombay High Court on Wednesday extended till July 6 the interim protection from arrest granted to IPS officer Rashmi Shukla in a phone tapping case.

A bench of Justices Nitin Jamdar and N R Borkar restrained the Mumbai police from taking any coercive action against Shukla in connection with an FIR registered against her at the Colaba police station here in February this year in the case of alleged phone tapping.