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Torture, unlawful arrests, scandals and hiding murders – The evil empire of Param Bir Singh

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Param Bir Singh, the Police Commissioner of Mumbai who has been transferred after the Mukesh Ambani safety scare case, is rising as the actual villain of the entire story. Singh, a 1988 batch IPS officer, is thought for having the ambition to grow to be the Police Commissioner of Mumbai. In 2019, when the Fadnavis authorities gave a three-month extension to the then police commissioner Sanjay Barve, Param Bir Singh is claimed to have smashed crockery in his dwelling out of frustration and anger.In a non-public conversion with the media, Param Bir Singh by no means hid his ambitions and repeatedly talked about his want to grow to be the police commissioner of the monetary capital of the nation. Singh wished the place in any circumstance and he was at all times greater than keen to make compromises to get to the highest.Hemant Nagrale, a 1987 batch IPS workplace who has now changed Param Bir Singh, was the rightful inheritor to the place of the police commissioner, however Sharad Pawar is claimed to have informed Uddhav Thackeray to supersede him for Param Bir Singh. Param Bir Singh had dealt with many politically delicate circumstances when the Congress-NCP alliance was in energy within the state between 1999 to 2014.In 2008, Singh, the then extra commissioner of the Anti-Terrorism Squad, investigated the Malegaon bomb blast case and arrested two prime accused—Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit— and he purportedly helped the Congress-NCP authorities body unsuitable prices and to construct the parable of Hindu terrorism. As per varied claims, Param Bir Singh bodily tortured Sadhvi Pragya whereas she was in custody and falsely implicated her within the case.Sadhvi Pragya was arrested for the Malegaon blasts of 2008 as a result of there was a superb likelihood that the explosive was planted in a motorbike that was as soon as owned by her, overlooking the truth that she had bought the bike two years earlier than the incident. Narco exams had been executed on her which bore no incriminating outcomes.With the arrest of Pragya, nevertheless, the then UPA authorities, which was set to face the final election in few months, manufactured a case of ‘saffron terror’ and ‘Hindu terror’ with the intention to malign BJP, and Param Bir Singh is claimed to have been concerned within the course of.Just a few months after the tri-party alliance of Shiv Sena, Congress and the NCP got here to energy, Param Bir Singh was made the police commissioner of Mumbai – his long-held dream got here true – however the nation went into lockdown a number of weeks after that.In the very first large case – Sushant Singh Rajpur alleged suicide case – that Param Bir Singh obtained because the Commissioner of the Mumbai Police, he was quickly accused of hesitating to file an FIR. An enormous controversy arose over the truth that an FIR was not filed in such a excessive profile case. Moreover, he additionally junked the Disha Saliyan case within the dustbin even supposing hyperlinks between her dying and Rajput’s alleged suicide had been rising.Just a number of months after, he obtained one other likelihood to show his loyalty to Maharashtra’s political management with the controversial arrest of Arnab Goswami. Sachin Vaze, the police officer who has been arrested by NIA within the Mukesh Ambani bomb-scare case, was a henchman for him. The two loved such bonhomie that Vaze immediately reported to Param Bir Singh, bypassing his instant boss Milind Bharambare.The political institution for which Param Bir Singh was working and with whose approval he hatched the Ambani safety conspiracy, obtained him transferred as a result of his arrest is imminent by NIA. Vaze, who’s now in hassle for allegedly executing the sinister plot which additionally entails the dying of accused Hiren Mansukh, has been arrested and lots of large names are anticipated to return out of this conspiracy.Anil Deshmukh, the Home Minister of Maharashtra, has tried to play it protected with the switch of Param Bir Singh to the insignificant (comparatively) put up of the Home Gaurd DG. But if NIA’s investigation leads it to Singh, the purported deeds of the police officer – from torture and framing of Sadhvi Pragya to the truth of Rajput’s alleged suicide – would come out in public.