The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the Maharashtra government to give a seven-day notice to senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla in case of any coercive steps are to be taken against her in the alleged phone tapping and leak of sensitive documents case.

A division bench of Justices Nitin Jamdar and Sarang Kotwal also rejected a petition filed by Shukla seeking to quash the FIR registered by the Mumbai police and to transfer the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).