Phone-tapping to extortion: Mumbai Police Inspector is go-to man for ‘sensitive cases’

IN THE tussle between the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi ruling coalition and the BJP-led Centre, a 50-year-old Police Inspector in Mumbai has emerged as the go-to person for the state government to investigate major cases that are being seen as “politically sensitive”.

The Indian Express has learnt that Mumbai Police’s Sanjay Mohite was picked by City Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey to handle these cases after he helmed the investigation that led to a 750-page chargesheet being filed against former State Intelligence Department (SID) chief Rashmi Shukla for allegedly tapping the phones of Shiv Sena and NCP leaders Sanjay Raut and Eknath Khadse.