Atrocities case not to pressurise Param Bir Singh: Cop to Bombay HC

Inspector Bhimrao Ghadge filed an affidavit in the Bombay High Court on Thursday saying his case under the Atrocities Act lodged against former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh was not to pressurise him to withdraw his complaint against exMaharashtra minister Anil DeshmukhGhadge filed the affidavit through his advocate S B Talekar opposing Singhs petition seeking to quash the FIR registered against the former Mumbai police commissionerThe inspector alleged that Singh has defamed the police force by indulging in corrupt practices during his entire service careerLast week a vacation bench of the HC posted Singhs petition for hearing on May 21The Maharashtra government had then assured the court that it would not arrest Singh till May 21Also Read CID summons Mumbai cop who accused Param Bir Singh of graftSingh in his petition filed earlier this month claimed he was being targeted by the Maharashtra government with false criminal cases as a backlash of a letter he wrote in March this year to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in which he levelled corruption allegations against DeshmukhGhadge in his affidavit termed Singhs claim as imaginary concocted and fictionalI vehemently deny that the complaint was lodged by me and the FIR was registered by the police in an attempt to pressurise the petitioner Singh to withdraw the complaint letter dated March 20 2021 written by him to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra Ghadge said in the affidavitThe attempt to link the complaint lodged by Ghadge with the letter written by Singh to the chief minister is baseless the affidavit saidGhadge also termed as false Singhs claims that state Director General of Police Sanjay Pandey had conveyed to him that cases were being lodged against him Singh following his corruption complaint against NCP leader DeshmukhThe petitioner cannot improve his case or discredit the complaint lodged by merely alleging malafides against Anil Deshmukh former home minister of Maharashtra or Sanjay Pandey Director General of Police of Maharashtra the affidavit saidIt further said Ghadge lodged his first complaint against Singh in January 2016 but at that time the case was not probed and hence he lodged another complaint this yearGhadge further claimed that when he refused to follow Singhs directives in a few investigations the latter implicated him in false and frivolous complaintsThe petitioner Singh has not only assassinated my character but has also subjected me to humiliation indignity and mental torture by falsely implicating me in five criminal cases only because I had refused to obey his illegal orders and join hands with him in his corrupt practices Ghadge said in the affidavitThe FIR was based on a complaint filed by Ghadge who is posted at Akola in MaharashtraIn his complaint Ghadge had made a series of allegations of corruption against Singh and other officers in the period when Singh was posted with the Thane policeThe Akola police had registered a Zero FIR mode of lodging FIR in any police station irrespective of the offence committed in that area or any other area and it was later transferred to the Thane police for investigationGhadge who was posted in the Thane Police Commissionerate during 20152018 had alleged that Singh pressured him to drop the names of some persons from a case and when he refused to do so Singh embroiled him in false casesThe case has been lodged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence and sections of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Prevention of Atrocities ActThis 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