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After Deshmukh, Transport Minister Anil Parab has been named by Sachin Vaze in an explosive letter

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As former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh’s political profession hurtles in the direction of an inglorious finish as each former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh and API Sachin Vaze have come out and levelled sensational extortion allegations towards Deshmukh, now the title of senior Shiv Sena chief and Transport Minister Anil Parab has featured in Vaze’s letter because the suspended officer alleged that even Parab had requested him to extort cash for him.It appears that the previous loyalists of the Maha Vikas Aghadi are scripting the downfall of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra authorities because the skeletons preserve tumbling out. Now, in Vaze’s handwritten letter to the Court, he claims that Transport Minister Anil Parab had repeatedly requested him to extort cash for the Sena chief.Vaze in his letter wrote, “In July-August 2020, I was called by Minister Anil Parab at his official bungalow… At the meeting, Parab asked me to look into the complaint under preliminary inquiry and bring the trustees of the SBUT to him for negotiations about the inquiry. He also insisted to initiate primary talks to get Rs 50 crore from SBUT in order to close the said enquiry. I had expressed my inability to do any such thing as I do not know anybody from SBUT and also I did not have any control over the inquiry.”The suspended officer additionally claimed that Parab summoned him once more in January 2021 and requested him to look into an inquiry towards some contractors listed within the Sena dominated BMC and acquire Rs 2 crore every from them.Vaze who’s at present within the custody of the NIA, wrote, “He (Parab) told me to collect at least Rs 2 crore each from 50 such contractors. An inquiry was on in this matter based on an anonymous complaint. The Crime Intelligence Unit inquiry against the contractors had not yielded any result.”In reality, Vaze whereas claiming his innocence, said that he had knowledgeable the then Mumbai Commissioner of Police, Param Bir Singh concerning the extortion calls for made by each Anil Deshmukh and Anil Parab. The letter said, “…I met the Police Commissioner (Param Bir Singh) and expressed my apprehension about this… I told him that I would be embroiled in a false controversy in the near future. The Commissioner encouraged me and categorically instructed me not to involve myself in any such illegal collection of money from anyone and for anyone.”In his letter, Vaze has additionally accused Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh of demanding Rs 2 crore from him if he needed to proceed his service in Mumbai Police.In the handwritten letter which is but to be accepted by the Court, Vaze categorically talked about how NCP supremo Sharad Pawar was towards his reinstatement in 2020 and needed it to be revoked. Vaze had re-joined the power final 12 months, 16 years after being suspended in 2004.Vaze alleged that Deshmukh had instructed him that if he paid Rs 2 crore to him, “he would convince Pawar to allow him back into the force”. Vaze wrote, “I had expressed my inability to pay such an amount. On this, the home minister asked me to pay it in a later course.”Reiterating the sensational extortion allegations levelled by Param Bir Singh towards Anil Deshmukh, Vaze claimed that in October 2020 he was summoned by the previous Maharashtra Home Minister to the Sahyadri Guest House the place Deshmukh requested him to gather Rs 3-3.5 lakh every from 1,650 bars and eating places in Mumbai.Vaze claimed that he turned out Deshmukh’s request as he wrote, “I refused by saying that it was not within the scope of my capability.”According to Vaze’s letter, Deshmukh’s PA publish the assembly reached out to him and suggested him to adjust to the directions of Deshmukh if he wished to maintain his job and publish intact. Vaze claimed that Deshmukh but once more made the identical demand when the duo met at Deshmukh’s official residence in January 2021.After Singh’s letter, it appears that evidently Vaze’s letter has opened a can of worms that threatens to sink the boat of Maha Vikas Aghadi primarily as after NCP chief Anil Deshmukh, even the title of Shiv Sena chief Anil Parab has surfaced within the extortion case.