The CBI on Saturday reviewed the statements and paperwork collected by it in the course of the ongoing Preliminary Enquiry (PE) in former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh’s allegations of corruption towards ex-Home minister of Maharashtra Anil Deshmukh, an official mentioned.
As the PE ordered by the Bombay High Court is time-bound, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is getting ready an motion plan to be adopted in the course of the probe, as a part of which the company staff studied all of the paperwork and statements.
“As the allegations are serious and sensitive in nature, the CBI team on Saturday reviewed the documents and statements,” the official mentioned.
The CBI staff has thus far recorded statements of former Mumbai Commissioner of Police Param Bir Singh, at present posted because the Director General of state Home Guards, suspended API Sachin Waze, who’s within the custody of the NIA, DCP Raju Bhujbal, ACP Sanjay Patil, Advocate Jayshree Patil, a petitioner, and lodge proprietor Mahesh Shetty.
The NIA is probing the case of an explosives-laden SUV discovered close to industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s home, ‘Antilia’, in south Mumbai on February 25.
Waze can be below the scanner for the alleged homicide of Thane businessman Mansukh Hiran, who was in possession of that SUV.
Armed with an order of a particular NIA courtroom right here, the CBI has been questioning Waze.
Following an order of the Bombay High Court, the CBI on Tuesday registered a case to probe the allegations towards Deshmukh.
Singh was shifted from the publish of Mumbai police commissioner to the Home Guards division on March 17.
Singh later filed a petition within the HC looking for a CBI probe towards Deshmukh, alleging the NCP chief had requested Waze and different cops to extort Rs 100 crore from eating places and bars in Mumbai.
Deshmukh, who has rejected the allegations levelled towards him, resigned from the cabinet on April 5 after the HC order.