Param Bir, Waze acted in cahoots to save themselves, claims Deshmukh

Former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh and dismissed cop Sachin Waze acted in cahoots and passed the buck to him to save their own skin former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh claimed in his bail plea filed in a court here in connection with a corruption case against himIn the petition submitted in the special CBI court on Thursday the senior Nationalist Congress Party NCP leader also claimed that the entire set of accusations against him rests upon mere whims and fancies of the investigating agency which raised questions about the credibility of the statements on which the Central Bureau of Investigations case is basedThe 73yearold NCP leader was arrested in November last year in a money laundering case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate ED He is currently lodged in the citys Arthur Road Jail The Bombay High Court had on Tuesday granted bail to him in the money laundering case registered by the ED but stayed the order until October 13 to enable the agency to file an appealAlso read How Param Bir Singhs man routed threat from Chhota ShakeelHowever he is also facing a corruption case registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation CBIDeshmukh filed his bail application through advocates Aniket Nikam and Inderpal Singh before the special CBI court judge S H Gwalani in the corruption case being probed by the CBIIn the plea Deshmukh claimed that the case against him rests upon mere whims and fancies of the investigating agencyThe credibility of the statements on which the CBIs case rests is extremely doubtful and the credentials of all such people raise a question mark of serious nature it saidThe entire case is based on the statements of Param Bir Singh and Sachin Waze a tainted cop against whom there is ample evidence available on record that he himself was in fact the sole person instrumental in the collection of illegal bribe money from the bar owners the plea saidIt is further a matter of deep and grave concern that Sachin Waze who had remained in suspension for so many years was reinstated and then accorded a status of a blueeyed boy by the then commissioner of policeBoth of them have acted in cahoots with each other and in order to save their own skin as well as to pass the buck on to the applicant Deshmukh absolutely false statements have been made having no credibility as well as evidentiary value it saidOn the allegation of corruption in transfer and posting of a police officer when he was the state home minister the politician said it was not only misfounded but an absolute anathema to lawThe bail application said that the CBI which claims to be a premier investigating agency has blatantly acted in a partisan biased and lopsided mannerThe agency has proceeded to get the mainprincipal accused Sachin Waze declared as an approver which itself demonstrates that there is absolutely no substance in the case the plea claimedIn the plea Deshmukh also talked about his medical conditionThe applicant is suffering from several serious ailments which have virtually incapacitated him to undertake ordinary pursuits of life without adequate medical treatment is beseeching for a benevolent indulgence of the court to admit him to regular bail it saidCiting the Bombay High Court order granting him bail Deshmukh urged the special court to rely on some potent pertinent and farreaching observations made as well as inferences drawn by the HCThe court asked the CBI to file its reply on the bail plea on October 14The CBI had registered a corruption case against him following allegations made by Param Bir SinghSingh had alleged that Deshmukh the then home minister had directed police personnel to collect Rs 100 crore per month from restaurants and bars in MumbaiDeshmukh had denied the allegations but stepped down from his cabinet post in April 2021 after the high court directed the CBI to register a case against himIt was revealed during preliminary enquiry the accused and others allegedly attempted to obtain undue advantage for improper and dishonest performance of their public duties the CBI has claimedThe other accused in the case are Deshmukhs former aides Sanjeev Palande and Kundan ShindeThis 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