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Bombay HC directs CBI to conduct preliminary enquiry into corruption allegations against Anil Deshmukh

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April 5, 2021
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Bombay HC asks former Mumbai Police Commissioner why he hadn’t filed FIR against the home minister before approaching court; reserves order after 5-hour hearing

Param Bir Singh and Anil Deshmukh,

THE Bombay High Court Monday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to hold a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) into the allegations of corrupt practices of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh levelled by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh.

A division bench led by Chief Justice Dipankar Datta said the PE was to be completed within 15 days in accordance with the law and thereafter the CBI Director could use his discretion to decide a further course of action, the HC said.

The PE would be conducted in the complaint filed by one Dr. Jayshri Patil who had lodged a complaint with Malabar Hill Police station but they had not acted on it.

The bench added it was an unprecedented situation where the allegations were against state’s home minister.

“The police department is under his control and direction. There can be no fair, impartial, unbiased and untainted probe, if the same were entrusted to the State Police Force. As of necessity, the probe has to be entrusted to an independent agency like the CBI”, the bench said.

It, prima facie, found the issues are such that the very faith of citizens in the functioning of the police department is at stake. 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, the Court said, 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 also took note of the press release of Deshmukh suggesting that he is not averse to facing any inquiry.

The high court reserved its order last week on multiple petitions, including the one filed by former Mumbai police commissioner seeking a CBI probe against Deshmukh for his alleged corrupt practices.

Days after Singh was shunted out of his position as police commissioner, he addressed a letter to the Chief Minister, alleging that Deshmukh would direct police officers to collect money on his behalf from various establishments and other sources.

Also Read: Bombay HC asks former Mumbai Police Commissioner why he hadn’t filed FIR against the home minister before approaching court; reserves order after 5-hour hearing

Singh’s transfer came as a fallout of the arrest of crime branch officer Sachin Waze in connection with the parking of an explosives-laden vehicle outside the south Mumbai residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani on February 25 and in the murder of businessman Mansukh Hiran, who purportedly owned that vehicle.

Singh also alleged that Deshmukh had been interfering in various investigations and instructing police officers on how to conduct them.

Earlier Singh approached the Supreme Court seeking a CBI probe against Deshmukh but was asked by it to approach the high court first.

Meanwhile, the Maharashtra Government issued a notification constituting a one-member high-level enquiry committee headed by a former judge of the Bombay High Court Justice KU Chandiwal, to probe the allegations made by Singh against Deshmukh.

The government notification said the committee would be submitting its report within six months.

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