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"The Mumbai Police has sent me a notice under Section 160 CrPC, asking me to appear before them at BKC Cyber Police Station at 11 am tomorrow. I will go there and record my statement," Fadnavis said on Saturday.

The Bombay High Court has granted IPS officer Rashmi Shukla interim protection from arrest in the FIR case involving illegal tapping of phones of Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut and NCP leader Eknath Khadse.

IPS officer Rashmi Shukla moved the Bombay High Court against an FIR filed at the Colaba Police Station.

Phone-tapping, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot

The tapping was a gross violation of the Indian Telegraph Act, Tapase said, adding that there was no valid reason such as national emergency to warrant it.

In a major development, the Pune Police on Saturday lodged an FIR against IPS officer and a former Pune Police Commissioner Rashmi Shukla in connection with the phone-tapping scandal that erupted last year, officials said here.

IPS officer Rashmi Shukla has been accused of tapping phones of politicians and bureaucrats by misleading her senior officials when she headed the state intelligence department.

"It was Fadnavis, who in March at the press conference, had said that he has a pen drive and he will give it to the Central authorities. Now the onus is on Fadnavis to tell who gave him the pen drive. Fadnavis cannot excuse himself from revealing the source," said Malik.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has taken cognisance of leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s allegation that her children’s Instagram accounts have been hacked by the government.

The CBI has taken up investigation into alleged phone tapping of politicians during the previous Congress-JD(S) government in Karnataka, officials said on Saturday. The agency has filed an FIR on a request from the Karnataka government headed by Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, they said.