Maha: Police inquiry ordered into graft allegations against minister Anil Parab

Nashik Police Commissioner Deepak Pandey has ordered an inquiry into allegations of corruption in transfers and postings against Maharashtra Transport Minister Anil Parab and six officers on the complaint of a suspended motor vehicle inspector of the Nashik Regional Transport Office RTO an official said on SaturdayIn his complaint the suspended officer Gajendra Patil has mentioned the corruption to the tune of multiple crores in transfers and postings in the RTO department he saidMeanwhile Parab a senior leader of the Shiv Sena said the complaint filed against him the state transport commissioner and five other officers is baseless politically motivated and aimed at defaming the Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA governmentThe complaint was filed by Patil who is posted at the Nashik RTO via an email sent to Panchvati police station in Nashik on May 16 He had also visited the police station on May 17 the official saidIn his complaint Patil also alleged corruption at border checkposts settlement of cases against some private operators and illegal registration of BS4 vehicles he saidPatil has named state transport minister Anil Parab and six senior officers of the RTO for their alleged role in transfers and postings of RTO officials he saidPanchvati Police had called the complainant to record his statement and submit documents but he was not cooperating in the probe the official saidConsidering the seriousness of the complaint it was not justifiable to neglect it Accordingly Nashik Commissioner of Police Deepak Pandey issued orders for aprobe by the Deputy Commissioner of Police crime on the complaint he saidPandey has directed the DCP to submit the investigation report in the next five days he saidDCP Zone 1 and DCP Zone 2 will assist the DCP crime with the required manpower and other requirements the official said quoting the CPs ordersHe said if needed the investigation team can take a few more days to complete the inquiryLast month controversial Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze now sacked from service had alleged in a letter he sought to submit before a court that in January 2021 Anil Parab asked him to look into an inquiry against fraudulent contractors listed in the Mumbai civic body and collect at least Rs 2 crore from about 50 such contractorsParab had rejected Wazes claims and said he was ready to face any probe into the allegationsThe Shiv Sena heads the Maha Vikas Aghadi government of which the NCP and the Congress are the two other constituentsThe state Home department is headed by the Nationalist Congress Partys NCPs Dilip Walse PatilIn a tweet Parab said suspended officer Gajendra Patil has acted out of a grudge to malign the image of him the minister and the MVA government as he was suspendedfollowing many complaints received from the state Transport departmentThe minister also alleged a conspiracy behind the complaintHe tweeted that the complaint filed against him the transport commissioner and five other officers at Panchvati police station was baseless false and politically motivatedThe complaint is filed with a political motive as part of which the complainant is trying to project that the state government cannot do anything against such ministers and then demand an inquiry by the CBI through the high court he tweetedNashik police is investigating the complaint and the truth will come out before the public the minister said in another tweetNotably senior NCP leader Anil Deshmukh had resigned in April days after former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray claiming that the then state home minister had set a monthly target to collect Rs 100 crore from bars and hotels in Mumbai to some police officers and moved the high courtThe HC then ordered a probe by the CBI which registered a case against Deshmukh and conducted searches atvarious placesThis 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