Businessman accuses Param Bir Singh, MSRDC MD of extortion, seeks police probe

By PTI

MUMBAI: A businessman has filed a grievance of extortion towards former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh, MD of the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) Radheshyam Mopalwar and others.

An utility for FIR was submitted by the complainant’s lawyer Ali Kaashif Khan Deshmukh to senior police inspector of Santacruz police station however no FIR has been registered but, an official stated.

Anil Vedmheta, the grievance, sought the registration of FIR towards Singh, Mopalwar in addition to former `encounter specialist’ police officer Pradeep Sharma.

Vedmheta was falsely named in an extortion and Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA) case registered at Kalwa police station, the appliance stated.

The accused then took away his enterprise inventory value Rs 5 crore on promise of withdrawing the faux MCOCA case, it alleged.

Param Bir Singh is dealing with not less than 5 extortion instances in Mumbai and Thane.

In March final yr he had accused then residence minister Anil Deshmukh of corruption.

In December 2021 Singh was suspended from service.