No protection, no hearing until we know your whereabouts: SC on ex-Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh's plea

MUMBAI: The Supreme court on Thursday sought to know the location of former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh who is absconding.
The development comes after a magistrate's court on Wednesday declared Singh a 'proclaimed offender' in an extortion case registered against him and some other police officers in the city.
The apex court said that it will hear Singh's plea for protection against arrest only after he tells which part of the country or the world he is in, reported ANI.
"You are seeking protective orders; nobody knows where you are. Suppose you are sitting abroad and taking legal recourse through power of attorney then what happens. If that is so then you will come to India if the court rules in your favour, we don't know what you have in mind. No protection, no hearing until we know where you are," said the bench also comprising Justice M M Sundresh.
The top court has asked Singh's lawyer to inform his whereabouts and posted the matter for hearing on November 22.
Singh had last attended his office in May this year after which he went on leave.
Earlier in October, the Maharashtra police had told the Bombay highcourt that his whereabouts were not known.
The IPS officer was shunted out from the post of Mumbai police commissioner in March 2021 after Waze was arrested in the case of the SUV with explosives found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's south Mumbai residence 'Antilia' and the subsequent death of Thane businessman Mansukh Hiran.
- With inputs from agencies