Plea earlier than Bombay HC seeks unbiased probe towards Anil Deshmukh, Param Bir Singh

A Mumbai-based lawyer Tuesday filed a prison writ petition earlier than the Bombay High Court in search of an investigation by the CBI or some other unbiased company towards Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh and former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, together with others in reference to allegations towards Deshmukh.Advocate Jaishri Laxmanrao Patil, who filed the plea earlier than HC additionally sought instructions to police to take cognizance of a written criticism lodged by her earlier than the Malabar Hill Police station in south Mumbai, in search of registration of an FIR in reference to the case.
The petition additionally sought instructions to the investigating officers (IO) to safe CCTV footage of the locations the place the alleged prison conspiracy came about as per Singh’s letter to CM Uddhav Thackeray.
Three days after he was eliminated as Mumbai Police Commissioner and posted to the Home Guard in wake of the Ambani home bomb scare case, Param Bir Singh on final Saturday wrote to Thackeray, alleging that Deshmukh had requested Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Waze, who was later arrested by the NIA within the bomb scare case, to gather Rs 100 crore each month, together with Rs 40-50 crore from some 1,750 bars and eating places in Mumbai.
The contents of the eight-page letter to the Chief Minister, wherein Singh attacked Deshmukh, will not be linked to the Antilia safety case, nonetheless, he suggests on the finish of the letter that he needed to pay the value for resisting Deshmukh’s “interference” in work of the Mumbai Police.

The former Mumbai police commissioner on Monday had moved the Supreme Court in search of an unbiased CBI probe into alleged malpractices by Deshmukh.
Referring to Singh’s letter, the plea by Patil earlier than the courtroom alleged that, “The Home Minister has, as a daily follow, been repeatedly calling officers and giving them directions in respect of the course to be adopted by them in efficiency of their official duties. The Home Minister has been calling officers at his official residence bypassing different superior officers of the Police Department to whom these respective Police Officers report back to. “
It added, “He has been instructing them to carry out official assignments and collection schemes including financial transactions as per his instructions based on his expectations and targets to collect money. These corrupt malpractices have been brought to notice by the respondent Singh.”
The petition additionally claimed that Deshmukh is allegedly “abusing his powers by calling and instructing the Police Officers for extorting Money from the businessmen/common citizens, therefore, he is not trustworthy as he is the person holding the Position of the Home Minister of the state.”

While in search of probe into the alleged function performed by Singh as Mumbai CP, the petition mentioned, “Undoubtedly, he himself for a year as a head of Mumbai Police, without bringing such heinous crime in the clutches of law, he was just sitting on it and it doesn’t show good intention. It shows his role as well, as he was the superior police officer and was having powers to take steps in accordance with the law under section 154 of the Criminal Procedure Code, but he failed to do so for what reasons is the matter of investigation, after registration of FIR.”
The petitioner additionally mentioned that the Malabar Hill police station did not register an FIR on her criticism and apprehended by the plea the destruction of proof by “powerful” individuals and due to this fact petition earlier than HC.
Patil added that if immediate motion will not be taken, the essential proof could also be destroyed by the errant officers.
In gentle of this, the petition sought instructions to CBI, ED or some other unbiased company to conduct ‘unbiased, uninfluenced, neutral and truthful investigation within the alleged malpractices by Deshmukh, Singh and others.
Another petition has additionally been filed by a Pune-based activist, Hemant Baburao Patil, in search of instructions to Maharashtra Police or some other unbiased company underneath the supervision of High Court towards Waze and his associates for offences together with extortion and towards Deshmukh and Singh underneath part 166 (Public servant disobeying legislation, with intent to trigger damage to any particular person) of the Indian Penal Code
The excessive courtroom will hear the pleas sooner or later.