The Bombay High Court on Wednesday is set to hear a petition filed by the former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh that seeks for a CBI probe against the Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.
Mr Singh has accused Deshmukh of allegedly asking Sachin Vaze for collecting Rs 100 crore every month from restaurants and bars in Mumbai.
The petition was first filed in Supreme Court which called the matter serious but asked the former commissioner to file the petition first in High Court, following which Singh filed a criminal Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in Bombay HC on March 25.
The top cop has also highlighted issues of corruption in transfers and postings of Police officials in Maharashtra.
Singh’s senior counsel Vikram Nankani on Tuesday, presented the plea to a division bench of chief justice Dipankar Datta and justice G S Kulkarni and asked for an urgent hearing on the same. After which the Chief justice Datta questioned the demands sought in plea and also if the PIL was maintainable.
To which Nanani replied, “We will satisfy the court with arguments on the maintainability of the petition”.
Following this the High Court then scheduled the PIL hearing for Wednesday.
Singh in his PIL has also accused the home minister for consistently interfering in the police investigations and also for pressurizing him to incriminate BJP leaders in the suicide case of MP Mohan Delkar in Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
However, Deshmukh has refuted all the charged levied against him by the former commissioner.
