'Param Bir Singh may have left country either before LOC or on forged passport'

Investigating agencies say that former Commissioner of Mumbai Police Param Bir Singh may have left the country either before a Lookout Circular LOC was issued by Maharashtra Police or he travelled on a forged passportAccording to the officers the Maharashtra Police issued LOC two months after Param Bir Singh went on leaveOn May 7 Singh had applied for leave citing his poor health and went to Chandigarh from where he extended his leave but thereafter he remained untraceable The first LOC was opened against him in midJuly There is a possibility that he left the country before itSingh was allegedly named in several FIRs registered against him under various IPC sections There were also two pending enquiries against him in the Anti Corruption Bureau He was also summoned by the National Investigation Agency NIA in the Antilia bomb scare case but he never joined the investigationThe Maharashtra Government has issued a Lookout Circular LOC against Param Bir Singh just after several FIRs were registered against him There is zero possibility that a person against whom LOC is issued can cross immigration at any airport in the country said a senior officialWhenever any such person against whom LOC is issued tried to cross immigration the moment his passport details are put in the system it gets redflagged and the person gets detained and handed over to concerned authorities added the officialAlso read Why should central agencies trust Param Bir Singh who has fled country Maharashtra minister Jayant PatilThere were speculations that he might have fled abroad from Nepal but there are also less chances because this route is under the surveillance of intelligence agencies and passing through the route is not a cakewalk he addedThe only possibility of his exiting the country from immigration is on forged passport that he might have obtained on some other persons ID and have used his photo Many times people with forged passports get detained but some also manage to pass through because the verification is computerbased with less manual interference said the officialSingh 59 an IPS officer of the 1988 batch was posted as DG Home Guards after he was removed as the Mumbai Police CommissionerThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever