Ex-Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday reserved for orders an issue raised by the state and DGP Sanjay Pandey to the maintainability of ex-Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh’s challenge to preliminary enquiries, which he alleged were sought against him “hastily” on April 1 as “vendetta and retaliation” by then home minister Anil Deshmukh. The second letter for another preliminary enquiry (PE) is dated April 20.
For the state, former additional solicitor general Darius Khambata said the enquiries against Singh are for alleged breach of his service law, All India Service Conduct Rules of 1968. He said, “Now for any complaint, Singh thinks he has a cloak of immunity in law. The allegations against him are extremely serious. No one is above the law, not Singh, not anyone else.”