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New Delhi, July 28 Moving ahead in its investigation into the alleged bribery case involving former Maharashtra Home Minister and NCP leader Anil Deshmukh, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has carried out searches at 12 locations in Maharashtra and also wrote to the state government seeking details of the officials transferred in his tenure."One letter has been written by CBI and sent through official channels to Maharashtra government seeking details of transfer posting of police officers when Deshmukh was Maharashtra Home Minister," a CBI source told .The source said that searches at 12 locations in Maharashtra were conducted on Tuesday after the roles of several people came up.The source said that the agency carried out searches at the residential premises of ACP Sanjay Patil in Mumbai and Pune and premises of DCP Raju Bhujbal in Mumbai and Ahmednagar. The source said that the CBI also carried out searches at premises of several middlemen in Nashik, Sangli, Thane, Solapur, and Osmanabad districts.The CBI booked Deshmukh and several others on April 21 after carrying a preliminary enquiry on the orders of the Bombay High Court. The court had passed directions on the basis of a petition filed by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, who alleged Deshmukh had demanded Rs 100 crore be collected as bribes from bars and restaurants in the city.On March 20, Singh, in an eight-page letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, alleged that Deshmukh asked now suspended API Sachin Waze to collect Rs 100 crore every month, including Rs 40-50 crore, from 1,750 bars and restaurants in Mumbai.Deshmukh has been charged under Section 7 of the amended Prevention of Corruption Act which deals with illegal gratification obtained by a public servant, and Section 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).According to CBI officials, case against Deshmukh was registered after the agency was satisfied there was enough evidence to proceed with a regular case against the NCP leader.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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