Mukesh Ambani security scare probe
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh to file defamation case against former Mumbai top cop Param Bir Singh for his letter
Mumbai/IBNS: Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has threatened to file defamation case against former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, who has levelled serious allegations against him in a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
"All the allegations made by Parambir Singh are false, he should prove them. I'm filing a defamation case against him," Deshmukh said in a statement, according to an NDTV report.
In hs letter Singh, who has been transferred to low-key Home Guard, alleged that Deshmukh had a target to collect Rs 100 crore every month and used several police officers, including former head of Crime Intelligence Unit of the Crime Branch of the Mumbai Police Sachin Vaze, for extorting money from from restaurants, pubs, bars and hookah parlours in the city.
However, Deshmukh had claimed that Singh was transferred because of the "unforgivable" lapses revealed in the investigation of Mukesh Ambani security scare case.
"The former Commissioner of Police, Parambir Singh has made false allegations in order to save himself as the involvement of Sachin Waze in Mukesh Ambani and Mansukh Hiren's case is becoming clearer from the investigation carried out so far and threads are leading to Mr Singh as well," Deshmukh tweeted today hours after the cop's letter to the chief minister surfaced.
The former Commissioner of Police, Parambir Singh has made false allegations in order to save himself as the involvement of Sachin Waze in Mukesh Ambani & Mansukh Hiren’s case is becoming clearer from the investigation carried out so far & threads are leading to Mr. Singh as well
— ANIL DESHMUKH (@AnilDeshmukhNCP) March 20, 2021
Singh also said the Maharashtra Chief Minister often summoned police officers to his residence to give directions on how to handle cases and file charges, bypassing him and other seniors.
A vehicle was found loaded with 20 gelatin sticks and a threat letter to the Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani's family on February 25. Sachin Vez has been arrested by NIA for his alleged role in planting the explosive-laden SUV near Mukesh Ambani's residence.
In his statement, Anil Deshmukh has said that Singh's allegations were part of a conspiracy to malign the Shiv Sena-led government in Maharashtra.
"It's been a while since Sachin Waze was arrested, why was Mr. Parambir Singh silent about these allegations for so many days?" he said in his statement, reported NDTV.
"If Singh is claiming that Sachin Waze gave him all this information in January then why didn't he bring this information forward back then? … Mr Singh has created this conspiracy to deflect attention from the explosives case and Mansukh Hiren's death," the minister alleged, the report added.
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