Mumbai Police Commissioner, who was recently shunted out, after fingers were pointed at him in the Antilia case, today made shocking allegations against the Home Minister Anil Deshmukh. Former Mumbai Police commissioner Param Bir Singh has written a letter to Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and levelled serious charges against Home Minister Anil Deshmukh. In his letter to CM Thackeray, Singh claimed that Deshmukh had asked API Sachin Vaze to collect Rs 100 crore every month from bars restaurants, other establishments.
Amid rising attacks from the BJP and pressure from its ruling partners, the NCP and the Congress, the Maha Vikas Aghadi government on Wednesday, in a major reshuffle, shunted out Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, replacing him with Hemant Nagrale, who was the acting director general of police (DGP). Singh will now be director of the low-profile Home Guards. Singh’s transfer came days after the state government faced a fusillade for its mishandling of the Antilla bomb scare case and also for shielding the controversial police officer Sachin Vaze, who has been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the matter.