A day after Mumbai police summoned Director CBI in the phone tapping and data leak case, sources have told News18 that Subodh Jaiswal is unlikely to appear.
Officials said only a questionnaire has been received so far. “A questionnaire has been received. We will send a response after taking legal opinion,” a source told News18.
The Cyber Cell of Mumbai Police on Saturday summoned CBI director and former Maharashtra DGP Subodh Kumar Jaiswal and asked him to be present and record his statement on October 14. Maharashtra police officials said the summons were sent by email.
The case relates to the `leak of a report prepared by IPS officer Rashmi Shukla, who is now ADG CRPF, about alleged corruption in police transfers in Maharashtra when she headed the state intelligence department (SID). Jaiswal was the director-general of police during this period. It was alleged that phones of senior politicians and officials were tapped illegally during the inquiry and the report was leaked deliberately.
Sources in CBI said the questionnaire from Maharashtra police to Subodh Jaiswal seeks details about this report. “They have asked about the report, if due process was followed before the phone tapping was carried out and details about action taken,” an officer in the know told News18. He added that the action seems to be a “tit for tat move” after CBI asked the current Chief Secretary and DGP to appear in the Anil Deshmukh case.
Earlier Rashmi Shukla’s statement was recorded by BKC cyber police station. Subodh Jaiswal, officials said, has been summoned as a witness in the case.
The FIR by cyber police was registered against unknown persons for obtaining “a classified letter and classified information” of the SID under section 30 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (fraudulently retaining a message delivered by mistake), sections 44(b) (failure to furnish information in time) and 66 (computer-related offence) of the Information Technology Act, 2008, and section 5 (wrongful communication of information) of the Official Secrets Act, 1923. Jaiswal, a 1985 Maharashtra-cadre IPS officer, has also served as Mumbai police commissioner in the past.
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