| Controversy | - Accused of Tapping Phones Illegally
- Three FIRs were lodged against Rashmi Shukla in 2021 and 2022. According to the FIRs, Rashmi, while serving as the Commissioner of the State Intelligence Department (SID), illegally tapped the phones of many politicians and journalists, including the then Congress president Nana Patole. In 2021, when the Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance ruled in Maharashtra, Patole levied allegations against Shukla of phone tapping. Consequently, the government ordered a probe into the matter and established a bench of investigators. Later, the Pune police filed an FIR against her on 25 February 2021. As per the FIR, the phone calls were tapped by the SID for 60 days for 'political motives.' In 2022, Rashmi filed a litigation against the FIRs being filed against her in the Bombay High Court. In her plea, Shukla contested that she was being implicated in the case by the then-ruling Maharashtra government, MVA.
- In July 2022, the case was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). In early 2023, the Bombay High Court quashed two of the three FIRs lodged against Shukla. Following the filing of a closure report by the CBI in May 2023 and its acceptance by the Bombay High Court, the court closed the case in September 2023.
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