Senior IPS Officer Param Bir Singh has moved Mumbai Court against an order allowing the Mumbai Police to declare him as a 'proclaimed offender' in an extortion case.
Updated Mar 17, 2021 · 09:42 pm Mumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale. | Hemant Nagrale/Twitter
Hemant Nagrale was appointed the new commissioner of the Mumbai Police on Wednesday, ANI reported, quoting Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh. The previous Mumbai Police chief Param Bir Singh was transferred and posted as directorate general, home guard, Deshmukh said.
The development came amid the investigation into the explosive-laden car found outside industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence last month. Singh had met Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray earlier on Wednesday, according to PTI.
Hours after taking charge, Nagrale said that the Mumbai police’s image had been “maligned by some recent developments”, and that the city’s force was going through a “challenging phase”, according to the
Mumbai: Police in Mumbai on Sunday arrested the chief executive of a right-wing television news broadcaster on suspicion of manipulating ratings figures, escalating a clash that has roiled India’s voluble but increasingly partisan media scene.
Police said they had arrested Vikas Khanchandani, chief executive of ARG Outlier Media, at his home in Mumbai, India’s financial capital. ARG owns Republic TV, a news network that broadcasts in English and Hindi and that has jumped in the ratings with its embrace of populist causes and its sympathy toward Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his nationalist Hindu policies.
The authorities, which had earlier questioned Khanchandani twice, said there was enough evidence to suggest that he had direct knowledge about manipulating the ratings figures. He has not been formally charged, but investigators said they arrested him after he refused to cooperate.