New Delhi. Acting on complaints from the Congress and other parties, the Election Commission of India ordered the transfer of Maharashtra DGP Rashmi Shukla with immediate effect and directed the Chief Secretary to hand over charge to the next senior IPS officer in the cadre. . The chief secretary has also been directed to send a panel of three IPS officers by 11.05.2024 (1 pm) for appointment as DGP Maharashtra, sources quoted by ANI said.
Sources said CEC Rajeev Kumar had earlier warned officials to not only be fair and impartial during the review meetings and announcement of assembly elections in the state but also be impartial in their conduct in the performance of their functions. On Friday, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said the Maharashtra Assembly elections cannot be held fairly if Rashmi Shukla, whom he accused of being biased towards the BJP, continues to head the police. state.
Sanjay Raut said that a very serious allegation has been leveled against state director general of police Rashmi Shukla. In 2019, when our government was being formed, this Director General of Police, who worked directly for the Bharatiya Janata Party, tapped all our phones and gave complete information to Devendra Fadnavis about what we were going to do.
