Rashmi Shukla becomes Maharashtra's first woman DGP

Rashmi Shukla has been appointed new DGP of Maharashtra. On Thursday, the 1988-batch IPS officer was appointed Maharashtra's new Director General of Police (DGP), becoming the first woman to hold the top post in the state. Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar group) leader Eknath Khadse on Thursday said he expects Maharashtra's new DGP Rashmi Shukla, who was named an accused in illegal phone tapping cases in the past, to work within legal framework.Khadse, a former BJP minister who joined the NCP in 2020, was one of the politicians who had alleged his phones were illegally tapped when Shukla headed the state intelligence department.
“Shukla had tapped my phone illegally for 65 days. I repeatedly raised this issue in the Legislative Council, but did not receive any convincing reply. It seems that since elections are round the corner, they want an officer who would listen to them and that’s why she was made the DGP,” he said.Khadse was speaking to reporters at Shirdi where the NCP (Sharad Pawar group) is holding its conclave.Shukla was embroiled in a controversy during the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government’s tenure when she was named as an accused in phone tapping cases. The Bombay High Court in September 2023 quashed two FIRs registered against Shukla in this connection.