Param Bir Singh strikes Supreme Court to quash switch order, calls it ‘arbitrary’ and ‘illegal’

Former Mumbai Commissioner of Police Param Bir Singh, on Monday, filed a petition earlier than the Supreme Court looking for quashing of the Maharashtra authorities order transferring him to the Home Guard Department. The IPS officer, in his plea, known as the switch “arbitrary and illegal”.
He additionally sought a CBI probe into alleged corrupt malpractices of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.

Under flak for “mishandling” the case of bomb scare exterior Mukesh Ambani’s residence right here, the Maharashtra authorities on March 17 transferred Singh from the submit and appointed senior IPS officer Hemant Nagrale, who was holding further cost of Maharashtra DGP, as the brand new commissioner of Mumbai Police.

Days after he was shunted out, Singh, in a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, accused Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh of indulging in “malpractices” and asking inspector Sachin Waze to gather Rs 100 crore a month. “The Hon’ble Home Minister expressed to Waze that he had a target to accumulate Rs 100 crore a month. For achieving the aforesaid target, the Home Minister told Waze that there are about 1,750 bars, restaurants and other establishments in Mumbai and if a sum of Rs 2-3 lakh each was collected from each of them, a monthly collection of Rs 40-50 crore was achievable. The Home Minister added that the rest of the collection could be made from other sources,” Singh had written.