Param Bir Singh Moves Bombay HC, Seeks CBI Probe Against Anil Deshmukh
Mumbai: Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh on Thursday moved the Bombay High Court seeking a CBI probe into the alleged corruption charges against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.
Param Bir Singh, who was shunted as Mumbai Police Commissioner in the wake of the Antilia bombings case, has also challenged the government’s order to transfer him from the post.
The former Mumbai top police officer delivered a setback for his case yesterday when the Supreme Court refused to entertain his plea on the same and asked him to move to the Bombay High Court instead. The apex court had said that the allegations and counter-allegations between Singh and Deshmukh were “serious”, but the matter should be heard by the High Court first.
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The Mahavikas Aghadi government led by Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress in Maharashtra is facing uproar following Singh’s allegation that the state home minister gave the police a target to collect ₹ 100 crores every month.
In his petition in the Supreme Court yesterday, Singh claimed that the Maharashtra Home Minister pressured him to investigate the role of some BJP leaders and “implicate them” in the case of MP Mohan Delkar’s death.
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Noting that the High Court is competent enough to deal with the issue, the apex court had pointed out that the parties concerned were “quite lewd” in the past, but were now making arrests after filing charges against each other.
Singh had reportedly written a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray claiming Deshmukh’s involvement in severe “malpractices”. The Maharashtra home minister, for his part, refuted all the allegations made against him by former Mumbai top cop. Deshmukh said that the police officer made these false allegations to save himself from legal action.
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