Bombay HC asks CBI to probe ex-top cop s allegations
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Mon, Apr 5 2021 14:06 IST |
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Vaze probe leading to Param Bir Singh: Anil Deshmukh. Image Source: IANS News
Mumbai, April 5 : Portending fresh troubles for the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, the Bombay High Court on Monday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct a preliminary probe into allegations of corruption levelled against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh by former Mumbai Commissioner of Police Param Bir Singh.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G.S. Kulkarni has asked the CBI to complete its preliminary probe within 15 days on the issues raised by Singh in his letter-bomb last month.
Maharashtra govt, Anil Deshmukh to move SC against HC order of CBI probe
The Maharashtra government will move the Supreme Court against the Bombay HC order on a CBI probe into the corruption charges levelled by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh against Anil Deshmukh.
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UPDATED: April 5, 2021 18:35 IST
Both the Maharashtra government and Anil Deshmukh will be filing pleas in the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court order on Param Bir Singh s plea. (Photo: Getty Images)
The Maharashtra government will be knocking on the doors of the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court order in the Anil Deshmukh case.
HC asks CBI to probe Param Bir s allegations against Deshmukh Extraordinary and unprecedented case that warrants an independent inquiry, says two-judge bench
The Bombay High Court on Monday directed the CBI to conduct a preliminary inquiry within 15 days into allegations of corruption and misconduct levelled by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni said this was an extraordinary and unprecedented case that warranted an independent inquiry.
The court said since the state government had already ordered for a probe by a high-level committee into the matter, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) need not immediately register an FIR in the case.
Amid a heated political environment in the state, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Sharad Pawar’s close aide Dilip Walse Patil on Monday, 5 April replaced Anil Deshmukh as the Home Minister of Maharashtra.