Anil Deshmukh despatched to CBI custody until April 11 by Mumbai court docket in corruption case 

By PTI

MUMBAI: A particular CBI court docket right here on Wednesday remanded former Maharashtra house minister Anil Deshmukh to the Central Bureau of Investigation’s custody until April 11 in a corruption case registered towards him and others.

The court docket had on Monday remanded two former aides of the NCP chief – Sanjeev Palande and Kundan Shinde and dismissed police officer Sachin Waze – to the CBI’s custody within the corruption case.

Deshmukh (71) was present process remedy at state-run J J Hospital and therefore the probe company couldn’t take his custody together with the opposite accused.

The senior NCP chief was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday night and positioned underneath arrest on Wednesday morning.

He was produced earlier than particular choose VC Barde, who despatched him to CBI custody until April 11.

Deshmukh, Palande and Shinde, booked underneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, have been underneath judicial custody after being arrested final yr by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a cash laundering case.

Waze was in judicial custody after being arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) within the Antila bomb scare-Mansukh Hiran homicide case.

The respective courts (PMLA and NIA) had allowed CBI’s plea looking for their custody within the corruption case.

Former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh had in March final yr alleged that Deshmukh, the then-home minister, had given a goal to law enforcement officials to gather Rs 100 crore monthly from eating places and bars within the metropolis.

Deshmukh has denied the allegations.

The CBI had lodged an FIR after conducting a preliminary enquiry towards Deshmukh following an order of the Bombay High Court final April.

The NCP chief had resigned from the state cabinet after the HC order.