PARAM BIR SINGH MOVES SC CHALLENGING MAHA INQUIRY

Former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh has approached the Supreme Court against the departmental inquiry initiated against him by the Maharashtra government. In his petition, Mr Singh has claimed that the inquiry is an attempt to frame him in false cases.

He has claimed that the inquiry officer is threatening him with false cases unless the complaint made by him against former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh is withdrawn. The state had directed Maharashtra DGP Sanjay Pandey to conduct a preliminary inquiry against Singh. The two enquiries were ordered on April 1 and April 20. Incidentally, Singh made similar allegations against Pandey that he was pressuring Singh to withdraw the complaints against Deshmukh.

Singh had also alleged that he had recorded the conversation between him and Pandey following which Pandey had recused himself from conducting a probe against Singh.

Later, the government again ordered fresh inquiries against Singh. Now the former Mumbai top cop has once again claimed that he has submitted before the CBI the transcripts showing alleged phone call conversations from the inquiry officer threatening him to withdraw his allegations against Deshmukh.

In his petition before the apex court, Singh has prayed that all the enquiries against him be transferred to another state. He has alleged that there is a threat of hosting multiple enquires against him unless he withdraws the complaints against Deshmukh. Singh prayed for a direction to the CBI to act on his representation against the alleged threats made by the Maharashtra Government's inquiry officer.

Singh was shifted from the post of Mumbai Police Commissioner to the Home Guards department on March 17 this year.