Court closes case over leak of IPS officer Rashmi Shukla’s confidential report
Hindustan TimesThe metropolitan magistrate court on Monday brought down the curtain on one of the most contentious cases of the politician-police nexus which pertained to disclosure of a confidential report prepared by senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla highlighting irregularities in police transfers and postings in Maharashtra. When Shukla was the State Intelligence Department commissioner, she prepared a report in August 2020, naming two senior politicians – the then home minister and another person known as “Dada”, and six IPS officers and 23 state service police officers. Police officials claimed that Shukla, presently posted at Hyderabad as additional director general of the Central Reserve Police Force, south zone, had copied the report on three pen drives. He further said that no transfers of police officers had taken place between June 27, 2020, and September 1, 2020, during which Shukla intercepted the telephone calls and based on which she prepared the report.