September 24, 2024

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The worry of different ‘Deshmukhs’ makes Uddhav govt knock the gates of Supreme Court to eliminate CBI

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After the Bombay High Court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to conduct a preliminary probe within the sensational allegations levelled by former Mumbai Commissioner of Police, Param Bir Singh, and submit its findings in 15 days, all hell has damaged unfastened within the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra authorities. The first one to chunk the mud was Home Minister Anil Deshmukh who instantly resigned put up the decision on “moral grounds”. However, to stop extra Deshmukhs tumbling out of the closet of Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance, the Maharashtra authorities has now knocked the doorways of the Supreme Court to overturn the ruling of the Bombay High Court and thus forestall the CBI from investigating the allegations made by Param Bir Singh.In what could be learn as the primary act of contrition, the Maharashtra authorities and Anil Deshmukh have approached the Supreme Court to hunt a keep on the Bombay High Court order which mandated a CBI probe into the allegations of extortion, bribes for switch and interference in investigation into necessary felony instances.The MVA authorities claims that the Bombay HC order breached the norms of federal construction of governance because it handed over the probe to a central company which not directly prompt that the Mumbai Police and a retired justice led excessive stage committee weren’t competent to analyze the allegations.The credibility of the Mumbai Police has arguably reached at an all time low and on no account ought to it examine the allegations levelled by its former commissioner.Anil Deshmukh as anticipated performed the sufferer card. Claiming that he might be stigmatised, the previous state Home Minister mentioned, “In the annals of judicial history, there has hardly been an occasion when the court has taken statements made against a sitting minister at face value and proceeded to direct an outside agency, without calling for a response from the minister, to conduct a preliminary inquiry,” mentioned Deshmukh.The Maharashtra authorities then resorted to age outdated tactic of claiming that maintaining in thoughts the present political state of affairs, central companies have usually been misused to de-stabilise non-BJP governments. It additionally added that the Bombay HC ought to have made notice of the truth that the Maharashtra authorities had withdrawn consent for a CBI probe into the instances within the state.The Maharashtra authorities appears to be hiding some skeletons as if they’re totally harmless as claimed by them, they gained’t resist a CBI probe as a clear chit would assist the federal government escape the storm.