The Supreme Court on Wednesday termed as “quite serious” the matter in which former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh has filed a plea against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, but asked the IPS officer to approach the Bombay High Court with his grievances. The apex court said both Singh and Deshmukh have levelled allegations and it appeared that a lot of material, which has come in the public domain, is a consequence of “personas falling out” after parties in the matter being “hunky-dory” for a long time.

A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and R Subhash Reddy granted liberty to Singh, who withdrew from the top court his plea seeking direction for an “impartial and fair” CBI probe into alleged corrupt practices of Deshmukh, to approach the high court. “We have no doubt that the matter is quite serious and affects the administration at large. It also appears that a lot of material which has come in public domain is a consequence of the personas falling out,” the bench said in its order.