Probe against Deshmukh: Maha shares documents with CBI

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) informed the Bombay High Court on Thursday that it received documents from the Maharashtra government pertaining to a report submitted by senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla on alleged corruption in police transfers and postings for its probe against former state home minister Anil Deshmukh.

A division bench of Justices SS Shinde and NJ Jamadar was informed by Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh, appearing for the CBI, that the documents have been provided as assured by the state government. The CBI had sought the letter submitted by Shukla to the Director General of Police, Maharashtra which included a report on alleged corruption in police transfer and postings, annexures of the report and the panchnama showing how the documents had been transferred from one department to another. The SID had refused to provide them claiming it was part of an ongoing investigation.

Singh also said that the central agency would go through the documents and check if the court orders have been complied with.

The HC was hearing an application by the CBI saying that the Maharashtra government was not cooperating with their investigation against Deshmukh by refusing to provide the documents.

The state government had earlier refused to share the documents claiming that the documents sought by the CBI did not have any relevance with its probe against Deshmukh.

The HC had last month asked the government to reconsider and had asked it to inform if it was willing to share some of the documents. Following this, the HC agreed to share some of the documents with the CBI.

After hearing Singh’s counsel, the HC has kept the matter for hearing after two weeks. Once again, the judges reiterated that such matters should not come to come to court and the issue of sharing of information/ documents for investigation purposes should be solved between the two agencies.