Former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh on Monday filed a petition before the Supreme court about his transfer to the Home Guard Department.
Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh on Monday, 22 March, filed a petition before the Supreme Court about his transfer to the Home Guard Department by the Maharashtra government on 17 March and demanded a fair probe by the CBI into the alleged malpractices by Deshmukh.
In his petition, Singh said that his transfer was done in an "arbitrary and illegal" manner "without the completion of the minimum fixed tenure of two years".
"The said transfer was maliciously effected purportedly under Section 22N(2) of the Maharashtra Police Act, 1951 with the reason that the transfer was necessitated by “administrative exigencies”. It is settled law that the orders have to stand on the reasons contained in the same and no reasons can be supplemented later," the former top cop said in the petition.
Singh was last week transferred from the post of Mumbai police commissioner in the midst of a probe by the NIA into the recovery of an explosives-laden SUV which was found parked outside the south Mumbai residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani last month.
Singh was recently shunted out as Mumbai police commissioner in the midst of a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the recovery of an explosives- laden SUV from outside the south Mumbai residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani last month.
Reacting to his transfer, Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh said that Singh was removed because some "serious lapses" surfaced in the police probe in the Ambani bomb scare case.
But Singh hit back with a letter to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray which has since shaken the political field in Maharashtra. Singh claimed in the letter that Deshmukh asked arrested cop Sachin Vaze to extort money to the tune of Rs 100 crore per month from various establishments in Mumbai like hotels and bars.