IPS officer Param Bir Singh not traceable, Maharashtra govt tells Bombay HC

The whereabouts of former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh were not known the Maharashtra government told the Bombay High CourtAs the IPS officer was not traceable it did not wish to continue its assurance that no coercive action such as arrest would be taken against him in an Atrocities Act case the government saidSenior counsel Darius Khambata appearing for the state told a division bench of Justices Nitin Jamdar and Sarang Kotwal that the circumstances had changed He isnt traceable In these circumstances we do not want to continue our earlier statement where the government said it would not take any coercive action against him Khambata said Param Bir Singhs counsel Mahesh Jethmalani said he had not been declared as an absconder yetIn this case he was summoned twice and both the times he responded Jethmalani said The high court was hearing a petition filed by the senior IPS officer seeking to quash the FIR lodged against him under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act and relevant IPC sections on a complaint filed by police inspector Bhimrao GhadgeThe judges adjourned the hearing to the next week Ghadge presently posted in Akola district has levelled allegations of corruption against Singh and some other officers when Singh was Thane police commissioner Singh pressurised him to drop the names of some persons from a case and when he refused he was framed up in false cases Ghadge claimedThe FIR was registered under the Atrocities Act as the complainant belongs to an SC community as well as for extortion and some other Indian Penal Code offencesSinghs lawyer claimed that the FIR was a backlash over Singhs allegations of corruption against former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh The IPS officer is also facing at least four extortion cases in Thane and MumbaiHe was transferred from the post of Mumbai police commissioner in March after the arrest of police officer now dismissed Sachin Waze in the case of an SUV with explosives found near industrialist Mukesh Ambanis residence and the murder of businessman Mansukh Hiran Singh then accused Deshmukh of asking Waze to collect Rs 100 crore every month from bars and restaurants in Mumbai The NCP leader who denied the allegation soon stepped down as minister and is facing CBI probeAlso Read Cruise ship drugs case Aryan Khan moves Bombay High Court for bailThis 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