'Serious Allegations, Go To HC': SC Refuses To Entertain Param Bir Singh’s Plea For CBI Probe Against Deshmukh

Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain the plea of former Mumbai Police chief Param Bir Singh seeking CBI investigation in the alleged corrupt malpractices of Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh and asked him to approach the High Court.

Former Mumbai Police Chief Param Bir Singh

Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain the plea of former Mumbai Police chief Param Bir Singh seeking CBI investigation in the alleged corrupt malpractices of Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh and asked him to approach the High Court. 

Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain the plea of former Mumbai Police chief Param Bir Singh seeking CBI investigation in the alleged corrupt malpractices of Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh. The top court asked him to approach the Bombay High Court following whicj, Singh withdrew the petition. 

A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and R Subhash Reddy in the judgement noted that the matter is quite serious as it affects the administration at large, but added that the high court was a more appropriate forum for deciding the issue.

Supreme Court bench said that the allegations levelled by former Mumbai Police Commissioner against Maharashtra home minister is very serious and asks senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi appearing for Param Bir Singh why he is not approaching Bombay High Court for seeking CBI probe.

"Liberty to approach the High Court granted," the apex ccourt said after Singh withdrew the plea and agreed on moving to the High Court

The two-judge bench also asked former Mumbai Police Commissioner why he has not made Maharashtra Home Minister a party in his petition as the allegations are levelled against him.

The former Mumbai top cop, who is presently in the eye of the storm of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), in his petition before the apex court sough an “impartial and fair investigation” by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh whom he has accused of numerous acts of alleged corruption and criminality. 

He also challenged his transfer to the Home Guards stating this was done in an “arbitrary and illegal” manner without the completion of the minimum fixed tenure of two years. 

Singh has accused Deshmukh of taking bribes for transfers/postings of police personnel and regularly interfering in investigation of crimes by dictating the direction of the probe to policemen.