THANE: The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a closure report in one of five criminal cases filed against former Mumbai police chief Param Bir.
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Param Bir Singh
THANE: The Thane police on Friday registered a case of extortion and abduction against former city police commissioner Param Bir Singh, a serving deputy police commissioner and three others at Kopri police station.
Developer Sanjay Punamia, businessman Sunil Jain, named in this case, were arrested in the Marine Drive case and are in police custody. Manoj Ghotkar’s name had also featured in the first case.
The complaint was lodged by Sharad Agrawal, nephew of developer Shyam Sunder Agrawal, the complainant in the Marine Drive case. Both the complaints are on similar lines.
According to the complainant, between November 2016 and May 2018, Punmiya, Jain, Ghotkar, Manere and Singh, in connivance with each other, initially “extorted” Rs 2 crore from him. A police officer said the demands were made at Singh’s official residence in Kopri’s Bara Bangla area and Punamiya’s Marine Drive flat. Punmiya and Agrawal were business partners and after the latter’s