Amid the ongoing controversy surrounding extortion allegations levelled against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, there seems to be more trouble for the state’s Maha Vikas Aghadi Government led by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
This as the former top cop, who moved the Supreme Court on Monday, has also levelled charges of malpractices in transfers and postings against Deshmukh.
In his petition filed before the apex court, the former Mumbai Police chief has mentioned a report made in August last year by IPS officer Rashmi Shukla, alleging malpractices in postings and transfers by the state’s Home Minister.
He also informed the apex court in his petition that Rashmi Shukla, Commissioner Intelligence, State Intelligence Department, had brought to the notice of the Director-General of Police, who in turn brought it to the knowledge of the state’s Additional Chief Secretary Home Department.
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The former Mumbai Police Commissioner added that “she was shunted out” rather than taking any firm action against said, Deshmukh.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) escalated its attack on the Maharashtra Government in the wake of fresh accusations against the state’s Home Minister with former chief Devendra Fadnavis leading the charge.
Demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the matter, Fadnavis claimed the Maharashtra Government did not act on an “incriminating” state intelligence department report containing audio intercepts of a “large scale corruption” in police transfers and postings.
The BJP leader said that he had “6.3 GB data” of the calls intercepted by then Commissioner of Intelligence Rashmi Shukla with due permissions, where names of several key police officers were discussed.
He added that all these phone calls were recorded by Shukla with due permission from the state government but despite the submission of the report to the Chief Minister in August 2020, no action was taken on the report, PTI reported.
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) expressed its fury over the fresh accusations with party leader Nawab Malik rubbishing the claims made by Fadnavis and calling Rashmi Shukla a “BJP agent”.