An inquiry commission headed by a retired state supreme court judge on Tuesday issued a bailable warrant against former Mumbai commissioner Param Bir Singh for not appearing before it.
The Maharashtra government in March this year formed a one-member commission of Justice (retd) Kailash Uttamchand Chandiwal to conduct a groundwork into corruption allegations levelled by Param Bir Singh against the then state home minister Anil Deshmukh
The commission had issued summons to Param Bir Singh multiple times to look before it, but he didn’t do so. Hence, the panel issued a bailable warrant against him, a government lawyer said.
Earlier, the commission had thrice imposed fines on Param Bir Singh – ₹ 5,000 in June and ₹ 25,000 on two times last month – for failing to seem before it.
Days after he was shunted out as Mumbai commissioner and transferred to the house Guards in March, Singh claimed in an exceedingly letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray that Anil Deshmukh wont to ask cops to gather money from restaurant and bar owners in Mumbai.
Anil Deshmukh, an NCP leader who resigned from the post of state home minister in April, has denied the allegations.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and therefore the Enforcement Directorate (ED) are probing the allegations made against Deshmukh by the senior IPS officer.
