SC to hear Param Bir Singh's plea seeking transfer of inquiries on June 11

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on June 11 a plea filed by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh seeking transfer of all inquiries against him to an independent agency outside MaharashtraAs per the cause list uploaded on the apex court website the plea would come up for hearing before a vacation bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and V Ramasubramanian on FridayOn May 18 Justice B R Gavai who was part of a twojudge bench had recused himself from hearing the plealdquoList the matter before a bench of which one of us B R Gavai J is not a memberrdquo the bench had said in its May 18 orderAlso Read Bombay HC asks police not to arrest Param Bir Singh in atrocities case till May 24Singh a 1988batch IPS officer was removed from the post of Mumbai Police Commissioner on March 17 and was made the General Commander of Maharashtra State Home Guard after he levelled allegations of corruption and misconduct against the then Home Minister and senior NCP leader Anil DeshmukhThe Bombay High Court had ordered a CBI probe into allegations of Singh against Deshmukh who had to resign as the ministerIn his plea filed in the apex court the senior police officer has alleged that he has been made to face several inquiries by the state government and its instrumentalities and sought their transfer outside Maharashtra and a probe into them by an independent agency like the CBISingh has been facing inquiries including the one under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act in a case of 2015 and he has termed this as a witchhunt by the state agencyHe has made the state government the CBI and the Maharashtra Police chief as parties in his pleaSingh in his earlier plea filed before the top court had sought a CBI probe against Deshmukh who he claimed had asked police officers including Sachin Waze to extort Rs 100 crore from bars and restaurantsThe top court had then asked him to go before the Bombay High Court which later ordered CBI probe into Singhs allegationsThe state government and the NCP leader subsequently filed an appeal in the apex court but failed to get any relief against the high court orderDeshmukh denied any wrongdoing and had said there was not an iota of substantive evidence to even prima facie establish that any of the allegations made by Singh had an element of truthIn its 52page judgement passed earlier the high court had said that Singhs allegations against Deshmukh had put at stake the citizens faith in the state policeSuch allegations made by a serving police officer against the state home minister could not be left unattended and were required to be probed into if prima facie they made a case of a cognisable offence the high court had saidThe high courts verdict had come on three PILs including one filed by Singh seeking several reliefs as also a CBI probe into the matterThis 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