CBI calls Maharashtra ex-minister Anil Deshmukh for questioning tomorrow

THE CBI has summoned former Maharashtra Home minister Anil Deshmukh for questioning in reference to a preliminary inquiry into allegations of corruption towards him. Deshmukh has been requested to look earlier than a CBI group in Mumbai on Wednesday.
The probe company had on Sunday questioned Deshmukh’s private assistant Kundan Shinde and private secretary Sanjeev Palace in reference to the case, which offers with allegations of corruption levelled towards him by former Mumbai Police commissioner Param Bir Singh.
The case has been initiated on the instructions of Bombay High Court, which requested the CBI final Tuesday to finish its preliminary investigation inside 15 days. The courtroom had handed the order on an software from Singh, who, after being faraway from his publish as Mumbai Police chief, had written to the state authorities alleging that Deshmukh had requested suspended API Sachin Waze to gather Rs 100 crore from Mumbai’s bars.
Waze, who was arrested final month by NIA in reference to the case of an explosives-laden SUV discovered close to industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s home in south Mumbai in February, had reportedly claimed in his assertion that Shinde was current throughout one such dialog.

The CBI group has to date recorded statements of Param Bir Singh, presently posted because the Director General of state Home Guards; Waze, who’s in NIA’s custody; DCP Raju Bhujbal; ACP Sanjay Patil; advocate Jayshree Patil, a petitioner within the case; and resort proprietor Mahesh Shetty.
Deshmukh, who has rejected the allegations levelled towards him, resigned from the state Cabinet on April 5 after the High Court order.