New Delhi: Former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh, who’s presently within the eye of the storm of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), moved the Supreme Court on Monday looking for an “impartial and fair investigation” by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the “various corrupt malpractices” of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.
He has in his petition earlier than the apex court docket additionally challenged his switch to the Home Guards stating this was achieved in an “arbitrary and illegal” method with out the completion of the minimal fastened tenure of two years in violation of Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India.
Singh, who earlier claimed Deshmukh wished officers to gather Rs 100 crore month-to-month from bars and resorts in Mumbai, has additionally sought safety from additional coercive motion from the state towards him.
This comes as he was transferred final week from the Mumbai Police Commissioner’s put up within the midst of a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the restoration of an explosives-laden SUV close to Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani’s residence.
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Meanwhile, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar right this moment got here to Deshmukh’s rescue amid rising clamour by the state’s opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis for his resignation.
Pawar dominated out Deshmukh’s resignation stating he didn’t meet suspended police officer Sachin Vaze as he was admitted to a hospital that point because of coronavirus.
“It is clear that during the period about which the allegations were made, Anil Deshmukh was hospitalised. As this is clear, such demands hold no power,” he advised the media.
Pawar additionally questioned the timing of the allegations of corruption towards Deshmukh by the previous Mumbai Police chief.
“If you see the former commissioner’s letter, he mentions that in mid-February he was informed by certain officers that they got such and such instructions from the Home Minister…From 6th-16th February, Deshmukh was admitted in the hospital because of corona,” he stated.
NCP chief Jayant Patil additionally spoke on comparable strains earlier on Sunday and categorically dominated out Deshmukh’s resignation.
Patil, who met the NCP chief to debate the controversy surrounding Deshmukh, stated there isn’t a query of resignation whereas asserting the wrongdoer will likely be punished because the ATS is investigating the Antilia bomb scare case in addition to Thane-based businessmen Mansukh Hiren’s homicide case.
