THE SUPREME COURT was supposed to hear former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh’s request for a CBI investigation into Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh’s suspected “corrupt malpractices” on Wednesday.
SC today refused to hear the case and asked Param Bir Singh to approach the High court. Now former Mumbai commissioner will take his plea to HC.
Justices S K Kaul and R Subhash Reddy was assigned to his case.
Singh says he was transferred shortly after accusing the state home minister of wrongdoing in front of Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, and other senior officials.
“The petitioner has invoked writ jurisdiction of this Hon’ble Court to seek unbiased, uninfluenced, impartial, and fair investigation in the corrupt malpractices of Shri Anil Deshmukh, the Hon’ble Home Minister of Government of Maharashtra before the evidence is destroyed,” said Singh’s petition.
According to Singh, Deshmukh charged police officers, including Sachin Vaze, with raising 100 crores a month from pubs, hookah parlors, hotels, and other businesses in February 2021. He also said that he was being used as a “scapegoat” in the Anil Ambani security scare situation. Despite the fact that there were five officers between him and Vaze in rank, Deshmukh used to visit Vaze at his home.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is investigating the Ambani security scare, has arrested Vaze and identified him as a prime suspect in the death of Mansukh Hiran, who was linked to the SUV found with explosives in front of Ambani’s Mumbai residence Antilia.
