The 1988-batch Maharashtra cadre officer was serving as the Director General of Sashastra Seema Bal. She had also served as the Additional Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
Before being posted on a central deputation, Shukla had held several key posts in Maharashtra, including serving as the Pune police commissioner and director of the state intelligence wing.
The decision to appoint Shukla as the top cop came more than three months after the Bombay High Court quashed two phone-tapping cases registered against the IPS officer.
Shukla faced charges in the first FIR in Mumbai for tapping the phones of Shiv Sena Uddhav Thackeray faction leader Sanjay Raut and Eknath Khadse, a leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
In the second FIR in Pune, she was alleged to have tapped the phones of Nana Patole, a Congress leader.
She has also been accused of leaking a classified report that exposed a nexus between some police officers and middlemen who offered transfers and postings for money. The complaint stated that she leaked a confidential report she had prepared in 2020 when she was the Commissioner of the State Intelligence Department (SID).
However, Shukla has denied any wrongdoing and claimed that she acted in the interest of national security and public service.
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