Anil Deshmukh probe
Retired judge to probe ex-Mumbai top cop's corruption allegations against Anil Deshmukh
Mumbai/IBNS: A single-member judicial committee, led by a retired judge, will investigate the corruption allegations levelled against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh.
Retired judge Kailash Uttamchand Chandiwal will probe the matter, the state government led by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray announced after the Mukesh Ambani bomb scare case surfaced new corruption allegations against the Home Minister.
The committee will submit a probe report within 6 months.
Param Bir Singh, who was transferred to a low-key Home Guard in the aftermath of the investigation in connection with the Mukesh Ambani security scare case, accused Deshmukh of interference in police investigations and alleged that he asked police officers to conduct probes in the manner desired by him,.
In his petition to the Supreme Court earlier this month, Singh had said his transfer is a malicious move to suppress him as he was removed from his post immediately after he brought Deshmukh's corrupt practices to the notice of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and other senior leaders.
Singh was replaced at the insistence of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), one of the constituents of Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition. Deshmukh, who is a senior NCP leader, had justified Singh's removal citing 'unforgivable' lapses revealed in the investigation of the Ambani security scare case.
In his letter to Thackeray, Singh alleged that Deshmukh had a target to collect Rs 100 crore every month and used several police officers, including former head of Crime Intelligence Unit of the Crime Branch of the Mumbai Police Sachin Vaze, for extorting money from restaurants, pubs, bars and hookah parlours in the city.
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