The Central Bureau of Investigation brought Mumbai’s two former police commissioners—Param Bir Singh and Sanjay Pandey—face to face on Monday as part of its probe into the alleged demand for money by Maharashtra’s ex-home minister Anil Deshmukh. The case was registered against Deshmukh after Singh said the former minister had asked him to collect R100 crore from bars and other establishments.

The agency made the former top cops confront over Singh’s allegation that Pandey, who was then the state’s director-general of police (DGP), had asked him to take back his complaint against Deshmukh. Singh, who had approached the high court, had said that the conversation happened on WhatsApp. Following Singh’s allegations, Pandey had withdrawn himself from the investigation and started a departmental probe against Singh.