CBI chief Subodh Kumar Jaiswal has been summoned by the cyber cell of the Mumbai Police in connection with a phone-tapping and data leak case that had spawned a political row and a case being heard by the Bombay High Court.
The summon has been sent via an e-mail, asking him to appear before it next Thursday, the Mumbai Police said.
The case relates to the "leak" of a report prepared by IPS officer Rashmi Shukla about alleged corruption in police transfers in Maharashtra when she headed the state intelligence department. Mr 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, but the FIR registered in this regard by the cyber cell does not name Mr Shukla or any other official.
A 1985-batch IPS officer of the Maharashtra cadre, Mr Jaiswal had been appointed chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation for a two-year period in May this year.
He held the top post in the Mumbai Police and subsequently was the police chief of Maharashtra before being called for central deputation earlier this year.
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