The CBI on Friday recorded the statement an owner of a city-based bar in connection with the allegations of corruption levelled by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, an official said.

"A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is conducting a premilinary inquiry into the allegations against Deshmukh, recorded the statement of bar owner Mahesh Shetty," the official said.