CBI summons Anil Deshmukh in alleged Rs 100 corruption case
The CBI has known as former Maharashtra Home minister Anil Deshmukh for questioning on Wednesday (April 14) in reference to corruption allegations in opposition to him. Deshmukh had on April 5 resigned from the submit after the Bombay High Court directed the central probe company to conduct preliminary investigation into allegations of Rs 100 crore extrotion levelled in opposition to him by former Mumbai Police chief Param Bir Singh.
Singh had set off a significant row when he alleged that Deshmukh had requested suspended Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Vaze, who has been arrested in the SUV case, to gather Rs 100 crore from Mumbai’s eating places, bars and hookah bars. Singh, who was transferred to the low-key Home Guards on March 17 following the arrest of Vaze in the Antilia case, in a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had claimed that he was made a scapegoat. In the eight-page letter, Singh had alleged that Deshmukh used to name cops to his official residence and provides them a “collection target” from bars, eating places and different institutions.
Allegations of Singh in opposition to Deshmukh and the Sachin Vaze episode have dented the picture of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities in the state. Vaze was arrested by the NIA, which is probing the restoration of an explosives-laden car from exterior the south Mumbai residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani final month and in addition the alleged homicide of businessman Mansukh Hiran, the purported proprietor of that SUV.
Earlier on Sunday, the CBI questioned two private staffers of Deshmukh in reference to the case. Deshmukh’s private assistant Kundan Shinde and private secretary Sanjeev Palande have been requested to seem earlier than the CBI staff in reference to its ongoing preliminary enquiry into the case. They have been questioned by the CBI on the DRDO visitor home in suburban Santacruz.
The company has so recorded statements of Param Bir Singh, presently posted because the Director General of state Home Guards, Sachin Waze, DCP Raju Bhujbal, ACP Sanjay Patil, advocate Jayshree Patil, a petitioner, and lodge proprietor Mahesh Shetty.
Anil Deshmukh, who has denied the corruption allegations, resigned from Uddhav Thackery’s Cabinet on April 5 after the High Court’s order.
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