States »WesPosted at: Mar 25 2021 8:20PM Ex-Mumbai Police chief Param Bir Singh moves HC against Minister Deshmukh in corruption case
Mumbai, Mar 25 (UNI) Former commissioner of Mumbai Police, Param Bir Singh on Thursday filed a criminal case in the Bombay High Court, after the Supreme Court rejected his plea and directed him to approach the high court for seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the alleged corruption charges levelled by him against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.
In his plea, Mr Singh has maintained the accusations against the Minister and his removal as the Mumbai Police chief by transferring him as Commandant-General of Home Guards.
It may be recalled that the IPS officer had sent a ‘letter-bomb’ last Saturday, in which he had alleged that Minister Deshmukh had reportedly asked an arrested-suspended assistant police inspector Sachin Vaze “to collect” Rs 100 crore per month from bars and hookah parlours in city, which had ignited a massive political furore.
Later, Minister Deshmukh had dismissed Mr Singh’s allegations as "an attempt to save himself from the ramifications of the Antilia bomb scare case and the subsequent death of Thane businessman Mansukh Hiran.
On his part, Mr Singh followed it up by filing a plea in the Supreme Court claiming, among other things, he was pressurized to probe the role of certain Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and to implicate them in the case of Feb 22 suicide of Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli MP Mohan Delkar in a Mumbai hotel.
The apex court refused to entertain his plea and while terming his allegations as of a "serious nature", directed him to first approach the Bombay High Court.
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