Mumbai: 4th extortion case filed against ex-police chief Param Bir Singh

Mumbai police have registered one more case of extortion against former city police commissioner Param Bir Singh an official said on SaturdayThis is the fourth such case against Singh and second in Mumbai Two other cases were filed in Thane city All these FIRs were registered within a span of one monthThe latest FIR was filed on Friday night at Goregaon police station on the basis of a complaint lodged by 48yearold builder Bimal Agarwal the official saidIn this case dismissed police officer Sachin Waze and four others Sumit Singh alias Chintu Alpesh Patel Vinay Singh alias Babloo and Riyaz Bhati have also been named as accused he saidAlso Read Former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh fined Rs 25000 for not appearing before inquiry commissionAs per the complaint by Agarwal the accused extorted Rs 9 lakh from him for not conducting a raid on two bars and restaurants which he ran in partnership and also forced him to buy two smartphones worth around Rs 292 lakh for them The incident occurred between January 2020 and March 2021 it saidAccordingly the case was filed under IPC sections 384 and 385 both pertaining to extortion 34 common intention against the six accused and probe in the case is on he saidSingh is currently posted as DG Home Guards and he has not been attending office since May as he is on sick leaveOn July 22 Marine Drive police station in Mumbai had registered an FIR against Singh five other police personnel and two more persons for allegedly demanding Rs 15 crore from a builderThe next day one more case of extortion was registered against him some other police officers at Kopri police station in ThaneOn July 30 another extortion case was filed against the senior IPS officer at Thane Nagar police station on the basis of a complaint lodged by businessman Ketan TannaThe case registered at Marine Drive police station was recently handed over to state CID for investigation while Thane police have issued lookout notices against Param Bir Singh and other accused persons in connection with the FIRs registered in Thane citySingh was shunted out as Mumbai police commissioner in March this year after the arrest of dismissed police officer Sachin Waze in the case of an explosivesladen vehicle found near the residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani in Mumbai Singh later accused the then state home minister Anil Deshmukh of corruption following which the latter resigned in AprilThis 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