Param Bir Singh, Waze made serious, unpardonable mistakes: Ex-HM Deshmukh

Nagpur: Former home minister Anil Deshmukh on Tuesday levelled fresh allegations against ex-Mumbai CP Param Bir Singh and suspended assistant police inspector (API) Sachin Waze, saying the two had committed grave, unpardonable mistakes in the case relating to gelatin sticks found in a car outside Ambani residence ‘Antilia’ and murder of Mansukh Hiren. The senior NCP politician was in Nagpur for a two-day tour.
Deshmukh said he had to remove Singh as Mumbai CP after Waze and his dubious roles started coming to fore in the Antilia and Hiren murder case. “If Singh wanted to make allegations against me, then why did he not say so when he was Mumbai CP? Singh started levelling allegations against me after I removed him as Mumbai CP,” said Deshmukh.
“Singh was also angry as I had taken away the two probes from under his supervision and given them to ATS (State Anti-terrorist squad),” said the former home minister, who is scheduled to visit Katol and Narkhed on Wednesday. “The two cases are now being professionally probed by the NIA (National Investigation Agency), and the suspicious roles of Singh and Waze would come to fore,” he said.
Singh had alleged Deshmukh was trying to extort Rs100 crore through policemen, and also interfered in the suicide of a Gujarat-based politician in Mumbai.
Deshmukh, while talking to scribes at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar international airport in Nagpur, said everyday fresh allegations of corruption and malpractice are surfacing against ex-Mumbai CP Singh. “Some police personnel like Ghadge (Bhimrao) and Dange (Anup) had filed complaints against Singh. Some businessmen like Ketan Tanna and Sonu Jalan too have come forward to lodge complaints against Singh for having extorted money from them,” said the former HM.
Deshmukh said he had approached the Bombay high court seeking justice in view of the allegations made against him in the FIR filed by CBI last month. “There had not been a single allegation against me in my entire career of 30 years in politics. Hence, I have now approached the judiciary for justice,” said Deshmukh.
In the past, Singh’s petition, along with a PIL before the Bombay high court, had paved way for a FIR by CBI against Deshmukh, whose residence-cum-office in Nagpur was also searched. In the meantime, police inspector Ghadge’s complaint led to a FIR against Singh for implicating him in a fake case. Dange too had lodged a complaint against Singh for having links to the underworld.