The Maharashtra government has delegated powers of a civil court to Justice Chandiwal committee, set up to conduct a probe into the corruption allegations levelled by former Mumbai commissioner Param Bir Singh against ex-state home minister Anil Deshmukh.

The one-member committee comprising high court's retired judge Kailash Uttamchand Chandiwal was set up on March 30 to conduct a judicial inquiry into Singh's allegations made in a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on March 20.