New Delhi: Maharashtra Congress president Harshavardhan Sapkal has accused the Mumbai Police of snooping on him on the instructions of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, who also holds the Home portfolio.

“On Friday morning, a police official in a civil dress barged into the Sarvodaya Ashram. I have been staying in the Ashram since I became Maharashtra Congress chief. The officer entered my bedroom and started questioning me,” said Sapkal on Friday (October 31), reported Indian Express.

Sapkal alleged that this was the third incident of snooping on him ever since he became the president of the Maharashtra Congress. He said that the official asked him if he would be addressing a press conference and whether journalists had come to meet him.

“Is this how Opposition leaders are being snooped? Earlier, it was Pegasus where phones were tapped and now, the police are being sent inside the bedrooms of Opposition leaders,” said Sapkal.

Sapkal said that he called the Gaondevi police station, as the person told him that he was following orders from the higher ups.

“The Gaondevi police said they were not aware of the matter,” he said.

Sapkal claimed that during the tenure of Nana Patole who was the Maharashtra Congress chief before him, the party president’s phone was put on surveillance, raising suspicion on Director General of Police (DGP) Rashmi Shukla.

He added that Patole had also written to the Election Commission of India during the Maharashtra Assembly elections last year, seeking Shukla’s removal from the post for fair and impartial polls.

Indian Express cited a senior police officer who said that no such instruction of keeping an eye on Opposition leaders have been issued to anyone.

“If we get a complaint from him (Sapkal), we will inquire into the incident,” the officer told the newspaper.

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