Param Bir Singh takes charge as DG of Maha Home Guard

Param Bir Singh takes charge as DG of Maha Home Guard

Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh took over as Director General (DG) of the Maharashtra National Guard on Monday, a police officer said.

Singh arrived at the National Guard office in South Mumbai around noon but avoided speaking to the media.

Under criticism for “mishandling” the bomb scare outside Mukesh Ambani’s residence here, on March 17 the Maharashtra government removed Singh from office and appointed senior IPS official Hemant Nagrale, who was in an additional charge of Maharashtra DGP, as the new Mumbai commissioner. Police.

Days after being diverted, Singh wrote a letter to Maharashtra’s chief minister, Uddhav Thackeray, claiming that the state’s interior minister, Anil Deshmukh, had asked Sachin Waze, currently in the custody of the National Investigative Agency (NIA) , and other police officers to raise 100 million rupees. monthly including Rs 50 crore to Rs 60 crore from bars and restaurants in Mumbai.