SC directs ex-Mumbai high cop to maneuver Bombay HC over allegations in opposition to Anil Deshmukh

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh to strategy the Bombay High Court concerning his petition searching for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into alleged “corrupt malpractices” by Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.
“The petitioner is making some allegations and minister too is making allegations… We don’t see why you should not approach the High Court… We have no doubt the matter is quite serious, affecting the administration at large… liberty granted to approach HC,” mentioned a bench of Justices S Okay Kaul and R Subhash Reddy.

SC: Petitioner is making some allegations and Minister too is making allegations…We don’t see why you shouldn’t strategy HC…We have little question matter is sort of severe affecting administration at giant…liberty granted to strategy HC. @IndianExpress
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In his petition within the apex courtroom, Singh had accused Deshmukh of asking now-suspended assistant police inspector Sachin Waze to gather Rs 100 crore each month; of interfering in investigations; pressuring him to implicate BJP leaders within the demise by suicide in Mumbai of Dadra and Nagar Haveli MP Mohan Delkar; and indulging in “corrupt malpractices” in transfers and postings.
In his petition, Singh expressed worry that “evidence such as CCTV camera footage at the residence of… Deshmukh… may be destroyed if immediate directions to take over the same are not issued to CBI”.
“Each such act of…Deshmukh in abuse of the official position of the…Home Minister, whether in calling and directly instructing the police officers of lower rank such as…Waze…for his malicious intent of extorting money from establishments across Mumbai and from other sources, or whether in interfering in the investigations and directing the same to be conducted in a particular manner, or whether indulging in corrupt malpractices in posting/transfers of officers, cannot be countenanced or justified in any democratic State,” he acknowledged in his plea.
Singh had made the allegations in opposition to Deshmukh in an eight-page letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray after he was eliminated as Mumbai’s police chief. He was subsequently shifted to Maharashtra Home Guards.