Maharashtra govt moves Supreme Court against Bombay HC
The Maharashtra government approached the Supreme Court on Tuesday challenging an order from the Bombay High Court directing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to carry out a preliminary investigation into the allegations of former Mumbai Police Chief Param Bir Singh. , against former Interior Minister Anil Deshmukh.
Calling the case “extraordinary and unprecedented”, the High Court had asked the CBI to complete the investigation within 15 days, after which the CBI director is free to take further action.
Three days after being removed as Mumbai Police Commissioner and dispatched to the Home Guards, Singh wrote an eight-page letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, alleging that Deshmukh asked how he had suspended and detained Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Waze for charge 100 million rupees every month. , including Rs 40-50 crore from 1,750 bars and restaurants in Mumbai.
The HC approved the ruling on criminal PIL of former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh seeking a CBI investigation against Maharashtra’s Interior Minister Anil Deshmukh for alleged malpractices along with two other PILs seeking an independent investigation.
Following the High Court order, Anil Deshmukh had submitted his resignation to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
Deshmukh is the second MVA government minister to resign under a cloud: Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Rathod resigned as Minister of Forests on February 28 after he was linked to the death of a 22-year-old woman in Pune. The Minister of State for Labor and Excise, Dilip Walse-Patil, a close confidant of Pawar who has served as his personal assistant, is the new Minister of the Interior.
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