‘Param Bir by no means shared Kasab’s cellphone with the authorities’, Mumbai’s retd. ACP says

In a startling revelation, Retired Assistant Police Commissioner Samsher Khan Pathan has claimed former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh “destroyed” a cell phone seized from the 26/11 terror assault convict Mohammed Ajmal Kasab. According to Pathan, Param Bir Singh – who again then was posted as a DIG with the anti-terrorism squad, took Ajmal Kasab’s cell phone from the custody of a constable and by no means returned it. Param Bir Singh did so with out intimating his seniors, thus elevating suspicion on the motives behind such an unwarranted and brazen seizure by a person who is thought to have political connections and who throughout his tenure as a senior police functionary remained a loyal pet of many political masters.In a written grievance to the Mumbai Police Commissioner in July, the previous ACP stated that the then-senior PI Mali of the DB Marg police station had knowledgeable him that he had recovered a cell phone from Kasab, which was stored with the police station’s police constable Kamble. Subsequently, Pathan claimed that Param Bir Singh had then arrived on the sign at Girgaum Chowpatty, the place Kasab was apprehended and took the cellphone with him.Mumbai | Retired ACP Shamsher Ok Pathan in a letter to Mumbai Police Commissioner in July 2021 alleged that “during 26/11 terrorist attacks, #ParamBirSingh , the then DIG ATS, confiscated terrorist #AjmalKasab phone, ensuring that phone never appeared during the probe or trial” pic.twitter.com/6uzFloTavC— TOI Mumbai (@TOIMumbai) November 26, 2021In his grievance, Pathan stated Singh ought to have handed the cellphone over to Ramesh Mahale, the investigating officer of the 26/11 Mumbai terror assault case, however he “destroyed the vital piece of evidence.” Furthermore, the previous ACP was quoted by Times of India as saying, “There was a possibility that a probe of that phone would have unearthed the involvement of a few highly placed persons within India, who were hand in glove with them and facilitating the attack on our country.” When a batchmate of Pathan, N R Mali tried recovering the cellphone from Param Bir Singh, he was shouted at and instructed to get out of the police officer turned absconder’s workplace.Read extra: Hemant Karkare – The man who knew an excessive amount ofParam Bir Singh is at the moment dealing with extortion prices, and since October, the person has been absconding. Recently, on November 17, Param Bir Singh was declared a proclaimed offender in an extortion case by Mumbai’s Esplanade court docket. The court docket set a deadline for Singh, asking the authorities to declare him an absconder if he didn’t reply to their summons within the subsequent 30 days. Fearing such a label, Singh made a sudden look on Thursday morning earlier than the crime department of the Mumbai Police and promised to hitch the extortion investigations underway in opposition to him.In 2008, the main target earlier than the 26/11 assaults was on the Malegaon bomb blast, wherein the Congress tried to spin a false narrative of Hindu terror engulfing India.  26/11 got here at a time when the Congress occasion was attempting to cook dinner a malicious and false narrative of ‘Hindutva terror’. The Pakistani terrorists who attacked Mumbai had been carrying kalawas – the sacred threads worn by Hindus, on their wrists. Why had been they carrying these threads? Was the then Indian authorities conspiring with Pakistan to invent Hindu terror, or did Pakistan take a cue from the UPA’s ebook of inventing Hindutva terror in India, and resolve to behave independently? Param Bir Singh taking unlawful custody of a Pakistani terrorist’s cell phone is certainly a sign that the UPA authorities of the time was as much as no good.