The Supreme Court will hear on Wednesday a petition filed by former Mumbai Police commissioner Param Bir Singh seeking a Central Bureau of...
The Supreme Court will hear on Wednesday a petition filed by former Mumbai Police commissioner Param Bir Singh seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry into the corruption allegations he levelled against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, reported the Hindustan Times.
A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and R Subhash Reddy will take up Singh’s plea. In his petition filed on Monday, Singh had sought a CBI inquiry into the “various corrupt malpractices” of Deshmukh. He added that the investigation should be unbiased, impartial and fair.
The former police chief had sought protection from coercive action against him by the Maharashtra government. He had also challenged the state government’s March 17 order transferring him to the Home Guard.
On March 20, Singh, in a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, accused Deshmukh of 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.
Singh also accused the home minister of frequently interfering with police investigation in various cases.
Vaze was sent to the custody of the National Investigation Agency on March 15 for his alleged role in placing an explosives-laden vehicle outside the...
