Nationalist Congress Party Maharashtra unit chief Jayant Patil on Sunday said there was no chance that state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh w...
Nationalist Congress Party Maharashtra unit chief Jayant Patil on Sunday said there was no chance that state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh will resign from his post amid corruption allegations against him, reported NDTV.
“The Maharashtra government has decided that whoever is found guilty in investigation will be punished,” Patil said. “There is no question of the home minister resigning.”
Patil’s remarks come days after former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh alleged that Deshmukh was extorting money from bars, restaurants and hookah parlours in the city. The former police chief wrote that suspended Crime Branch officer Sachin Vaze told him that the minister had asked him to collect Rs 100 crore every month through illegal channels. He levelled the allegations in a letter to Thackeray, days after being removed from his post. Deshmukh has refuted the allegations and said he will sue Singh for defamation.
Singh was removed as the Mumbai police chief amid the investigation into the explosive-laden car found outside industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence last month. On March 5, Mansukh Hiran, who is the reported owner of the car, was found dead near Mumbai. Hiran’s wife alleged that Vaze was involved in her husband’s murder. Vaze was suspended and sent into the custody of the National Investigation Agency on March 15 for his...
