Attempt being made to mislead individuals: Anil Deshmukh
Amid the controversy over suspended Mumbai Police ASI Sachin Waze, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Tuesday mentioned an try is being made to mislead individuals by disseminating fallacious details about him. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief shared a video message on social media on Tuesday.
“There has been much misinformation about me being propagated in the electronic and print media for the last few days. You all know that during the last year amid the COVID-19 situation, I went around the state and met the policemen and encouraged them. I tested positive for COVID-19 on February 5. I was hospitalised from February 5 to 15,” he advised within the message.
“After being discharged from the hospital on February 15, the doctor’s advised me to stay in home quarantine for 10 days. So on February 15th itself, I arrived in Mumbai by private plane. And after that, on the advice of doctors, I used to go for Pranayam in the park late at night,” acknowledged Deshmukh.
“I attended a few virtual meetings in Nagpur hospital and later during the home quarantine. Few officers visited me at home for briefing prior to Budget Session on March 1,” he added.
“I stepped out of my house for the first time on February 28 for official work. I am sharing this video to refute the wrong information that is being circulated to mislead the public,” mentioned Deshmukh.
Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh on Saturday wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray alleging that Deshmukh had indulged in “malpractices” and requested suspended API Sachin Waze to gather Rs 100 crore each month.
The allegations made by Param Bir Singh got here a day after Deshmukh had mentioned that Singh was moved out as Mumbai Police Commissioner in order that instances pertaining to Waze have been probed with out obstruction.
In the letter, Singh, who has now been posted as Commandant General of Home Guards, had mentioned that he has been “made a scapegoat to divert attention from the actual wrongdoers”.
He had alleged that Sachin Waze, who was heading the Crime Intelligence Unit of the Crime Branch of the Mumbai Police, was known as by Deshmukh to his official residence a number of occasions in the previous few months and “repeatedly instructed to assist in the collection of funds”.
Waze, Assistant Police Inspector within the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU), who was transferred to the Citizen Facilitation Centre at Mumbai Police Headquarters after his identify got here up in Mansukh Hiran loss of life case, has been despatched to the NIA custody until March 25, in connection with his alleged position and involvement in inserting an explosives-laden automobile.
(With ANI inputs)
