mumbai: Warrant issued against IPS officer Param Bir Singh, second this week

A Justice of the Peace’s courtroom right here on Saturday issued a non- bailable warrant (NBW) in opposition to former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh in an alleged extortion case registered in suburban Goregaon. That is the second such order in opposition to Singh this week. On Tuesday, a courtroom in neighbouring Thane had issued an NBW in opposition to him in reference to one other extortion case registered in opposition to him.

The crime department of Mumbai Police stated it approached the Mumbai courtroom for issuance of an NBW as Singh didn’t reply to its summons to affix the investigation.

The summons have been issued to Singh twice, as soon as at his official residence right here and one other at his Chandigarh handle, stated a police official.

The courtroom issued warrant in opposition to businessman Vinay Singh and alleged gangster Riyaz Bhatti too.

Moreover Singh, dismissed assistant police inspector Sachin Waze can also be an accused within the case registered at Goregaon police station.

Builder-hotelier Bimal Agrawal, the complainant, had alleged that Singh and others tried to extort cash from him.

Singh was shunted out from the submit of Mumbai police commissioner in March 2021 within the aftermath of the invention of an SUV with explosives close to industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence in south Mumbai and the arrest of Sachin Waze within the case.

Singh later accused then Maharashtra house minister Anil Deshmukh of corruption.

The IPS officer can also be dealing with inquiry by the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau, and a case filed by a police officer from Akola in opposition to him beneath the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities Act).

Just lately the Maharashtra authorities had instructed the Bombay Excessive Court docket that it didn’t know Singh’s whereabouts.