New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear the plea of former Mumbai Police chief Param Bir Singh in reference to the row surrounding Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Wednesday (March 24).
Singh approached the highest court docket seeking a CBI investigation within the matter. He has additionally challenged his switch ordered by the state authorities.
Under flak for the dealing with of the current bomb scare, the Maharashtra authorities on March 17 transferred Singh from the publish and appointed senior IPS officer Hemant Nagrale, who was holding extra cost of Maharashtra DGP, as the brand new commissioner of Mumbai Police.Â
Following the switch order, Singh wrote a letter to CM Uddhav Thackeray levelling severe prices on the state dwelling minister. He alleged that Deshmukh ran an extortion racket of which suspended API Sachin Waze was a component. Waze was allegedly requested by Deshmukh to make collections to the tune of Rs 100 crores each month.
BJP Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis has mounted a pointy assault on the ruling Thackeray-led authorities, demanding the resignation of Deshmukh.
He additionally hit out at NCP chief Sharad Pawar for defending Deshmukh.
“This is an attempt to protect Deshmukh. Pawar Saheb is not being briefed properly and hence not speaking the truth. They are getting exposed in the process,” Fadnavis mentioned on Tuesday.
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad additionally held a press convention on Tuesday to query the Maharashtra authorities.
“The Maharashtra government is ‘of extortion (vasooli), by extortion and for extortion’,” mentioned Prasad.
He added that the state authorities has misplaced ethical authority to govern.
