Param Bir Singh: Former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh fined Rs 25,000 for not appearing before probe panel

An inquiry fee headed by retired Bombay Excessive Courtroom choose, Justice KU Chandiwal has imposed a effective of Rs 25,000 on former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh for not showing earlier than it on Wednesday.

It was the third time former Mumbai police commissioner has not appeared earlier than the inquiry fee.

The committee will convene for the following listening to on August 30.

In the meantime, former Maharashtra dwelling minister Anil Deshmukh’s lawyer Advocate Anita Shekhar Castellino has requested the fee to challenge a warrant towards Singh for not showing.

The Justice Chandiwal committee was constituted by the Maharashtra authorities to look into the allegations of corruption levelled by Param Bir Singh towards the state’s ex-home minister Anil Deshmukh.

On August 13, a lookout discover was issued towards former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh in an alleged extortion case.

On July 23, a case of alleged extortion was registered towards Param Bir Singh at Kopari Police Station in Thane metropolis Police Commissionerate. This was then the second case of extortion through which Parambir Singh has been named.

On July 28, Mumbai Police shaped a seven-member Particular Investigation Workforce headed by a Deputy Commissioner of Police-level officer to probe the corruption fees towards the previous Mumbai Police Commissioner and 5 others named within the case.

Param Bir Singh, in his letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, had earlier alleged that Deshmukh had indulged in “malpractices” and requested suspended Mumbai Police officer Sachin Waze to gather Rs 100 crores each month.

Waze was arrested in March in reference to the Nationwide Investigation Company’s (NIA) probe into the case of restoration of an explosives-laden SUV close to Mukesh Ambani’s home in Mumbai and the following homicide of Thane businessman Mansukh Hiran.

The case towards the previous Residence Minister was registered on Could 11. Earlier in April, the CBI had carried out raids at 4 premises of Deshmukh after registering an FIR towards him in reference to the case.

An FIR was filed based mostly on Part 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act (Public servant taking gratification apart from authorized remuneration in respect of an official act) and felony conspiracy (IPC 120 B). In the course of the searches, the CBI recovered incriminating paperwork and digital units, sources had confirmed.