Maharashtra Speaker Rahul Narwekar's Email Hacked, Mail Sent To Governor

The email of Maharashtra's speaker Rahul Narwekar was hacked by an unidentified man on Tuesday and a mail was also sent to the governor's office.

Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar

Source : PTI

The email address of Maharashtra Assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar was allegedly hacked by an unidentified person on Tuesday. After hacking his email address, the man also allegedy sent a mail toGovernor Ramesh Bais's office. "An email was found to have been sent to Maharashtra governor Ramesh Bais's office after the account was hacked," news agency PTI cited an official saying. 

Following the incident, a case was registered at the Marine Drive police station against the miscreant after the account was reported to be hacked, PTI reported.

An FIR has been registered under the sections 419 (cheating by personation) and 170 (personating a public servant) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the Information Technology Act. The probe into the matter is currently underway, PTI reported.

| Marine Drive Police registered a case against an unknown person under IPC section 419, 170 & 66 C,66D of the IT Act. The unknown person has hacked the personal mail ID of Maharashtra assembly speaker Rahul Narvekar to send mail to the Maharashtra Governor's office.…

— ANI (@ANI) March 5, 2024

As per Indian Express's report, the mail sent to the Maharashtra Governor stated that "Some MLAs are not behaving properly in the Assembly."

The report further stated that the incident came to light only after Narwekar denied sending any email after the officials of Raj Bhavan reached out to Narwekar's office to confirm the content of the email that they had received.

The Maharashtra Speaker was in the news recently for announced his verdict in the NCP vs NCP case in February, wherein he ruled it in favour of the Ajit Pawar faction, terming it the "real NCP." 

In January he ruled Eknath Shinde's faction as legitimate and calling it "real Shiv Sena." He pronounced the verdict on 34 petitions, seeking disqualification of 54 MLAs, filed by two rival Shiv Sena factions against each other after the party split in 2022. He stated that the Shiv Sena faction led by Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde was the 'real political party' when rival groups emerged in June 2022, and did not disqualify any MLA from the two camps.