Eyes on SC: Ex-Mumbai CP Param Bir Singh’s plea against Anil Deshmukh to be heard on Wednesday
All eyes will be on the Supreme Court on Wednesday as it’s set to hear the plea by Mumbai’s former Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh in search of course for instant “impartial and fair” CBI probe into alleged corrupt malpractices of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.
The petition will come up for listening to earlier than a bench comprising Justices SK Kaul and RS Reddy.
A 1988 batch IPS officer, Singh has additionally sought quashing of the order transferring him from the publish of Mumbai CP alleging it to be “arbitrary” and “illegal”.
He has sought as interim aid a keep of the operation of his switch order and course to state authorities, the Centre and CBI to instantly soak up its custody the CCTV footage from the residence of Deshmukh.
“The petitioner has invoked writ jurisdiction of this court to seek unbiased, uninfluenced, impartial and fair investigation in the corrupt malpractices of Anil Deshmukh, the Home Minister of Government of Maharashtra, before the evidences are destroyed,” he has stated in his plea.
Deshmukh had been holding conferences in February, 2021 at his residence with law enforcement officials together with Sachin Vaze of Crime Intelligence Unit, Mumbai and Sanjay Patil, ACP Social Service Branch, Mumbai, bypassing their seniors and had instructed them that he had a goal to accumulate Rs 100 crore each month and had directed to acquire cash from varied institutions and different sources,” Singh has alleged.
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He has claimed it’s reliably learnt that on or about August 24-25, 2020, one Rashmi Shukla, Commissioner Intelligence, State Intelligence Department, had introduced to the discover of the Director General of Police, who in flip introduced it to the data of the state’s Additional Chief Secretary Home Department, about corrupt malpractices in postings / transfers by Deshmukh primarily based on telephonic interception.
“She was shunted out rather than taking any firm action against said Anil Deshmukh”, he has stated.
Deshmukh had been interfering in varied investigations and was instructing the law enforcement officials to conduct the identical in a specific method as desired by him, Singh has alleged.
“Such act of Deshmukh in abuse of the official position of the Home Minister, whether in calling and directly instructing the police officers of lower rank such as Vaze or Patil for his malicious intent of extorting money from establishments across Mumbai and from other sources or whether in interfering in the investigations & directing the same to be conducted in a particular manner, or whether indulging in corrupt malpractices in posting /transfers of officers, cannot be countenanced or justified in any democratic State”, he has claimed.
Singh has stated that truthful CBI investigation is thus warranted in every of such acts of Deshmukh in alleged abuse of the official place of the Home Minister and added that he has introduced the corrupt practices within the data of the senior leaders and the Chief Minister of the state instantly.
He stated that thereafter, on March 17, by a notification of the Maharashtra authorities he was transferred from the publish of the Police Commissioner of Mumbai to the Home Guard division in an “arbitrary and illegal manner without the completion of the minimum fixed tenure of two years”.
Referring to the February 25 incident exterior Antilia, residence of businessman Mukesh Ambani, the place a automotive with explosives was discovered main to a bomb scare, Singh stated that he believes that the rationale for the switch famous by the state authorities in its file is to guarantee a free and truthful investigation within the case.
He stated that the stated case is being now investigated by the NIA, and Sachin Vaze, officer of Crime Intelligence Unit, Mumbai has been arrested for custodial interrogation by NIA.
“All necessary assistance had been rendered by petitioner’s office and his officers for the conduct of a free and fair investigation by the ATS and the NIA into the Antilia incident. It is not even case of NIA that the petitioner had in any manner obstructed in free and fair investigation by NIA”, he stated.
He additional stated that having made such startling revelations, he apprehends additional malicious and coercive actions on the occasion of “disgruntled Home Minister in abuse of his powers”.
He stated that Deshmukh whereas mechanically denying the contents of the letter dated March 20, submitted to the Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, has issued a press launch threatening to provoke defamation proceedings against him.
He has additionally sought instructions to safeguard him from any additional coercive steps apprehended within the retaliation for laying naked the alleged corrupt malpractices of Deshmukh. (With PTI inputs)
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