Why Anil Deshmukh is in the dock
Why Anil Deshmukh is in the dock | India Today Insight
The Bombay HC orders the CBI to investigate the former Maharashtra home minister in the alleged Rs 100 crore extortion case
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UPDATED: April 6, 2021 00:14 IST
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh during the Legislature Budget session at Vidhan Bhavan, Mumbai, March 4, 2020 (Vijayanand Gupta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
On April 5, the Bombay High Court ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct a primary investigation into the allegations that Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh had asked a couple of top police officials to collect Rs 100 crore per month from the bars and restaurants in Mumbai. The HC gave the CBI a fortnight’s time to complete the investigation and submit a report. Some three hours after the order, Deshmukh put in his papers, becoming the second minister after Sanjay Rathod to quit the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in a m
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The Bombay High Court has observed that the allegations made by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Parambir Singh against the Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh are of a serious nature , which warrant a preliminary enquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation. Prima facie, the issues are such that the very faith of citizens in the functioning of the police department is at stake , observed a bench comprising Chief Justice Dipankar Dutta and Justice GS Kulkarni, while disposing of PILs filed by Parambir Singh, Dr.Jaishri Laxmanrao Patil, Ghanshyam Upadhyay and Mohan Prabhakar Bhide. If there is any amount of truth in such allegations, certainly it has a direct effect on the citizens confidence in the police machinery in the State. Such allegations, therefore, cannot remain unattended and are required to be looked into in the manner known to law when, prima facie, they indicate commission of a cognizable offence. It is, hence, certainly an issue of credibi
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