Singh’s petition in the high court comes just days after he wrote an eight-page letter to the chief minister of Maharashtra. Uddhav Thackeray and launched a barrage of corruption allegations against Deshmukh.
In his guilty plea, the IPS officer has sought instructions for an immediate “impartial, non-influential, impartial and fair” IWC investigation into Deshmukh’s “corrupt malpractices”. He also wants to overturn the order transferring him from the Mumbai PC post, calling it “arbitrary” and “illegal”.
‘Interfered with investigations’
In his petition, Singh invoked judicial jurisdiction to seek an “impartial, non-influential, impartial and fair” investigation into Anil Deshmukh’s alleged corrupt malpractices before the evidence is destroyed.
“Deshmukh had been holding meetings in February 2021 at his residence with police officers, including Sachin vaze of Crime Intelligence Unit, Mumbai and Sanjay Patil, ACP Social Service Branch, Mumbai, without overlooking his elders and had instructed them that he had a goal of accumulating Rs 100 crore every month and had ordered to collect money from various establishments and other sources “. he said.
Singh said it has been reliably known that between August 24 and 25, 2020, or around that date, a Rashmi Shukla, Intelligence Commissioner of the State Intelligence Department, had brought it to the attention of the Director General of Police, who in turn brought him to the attention of the additional chief secretary of the state department of the interior, about the corrupt malpractices in Deshmukh’s posts / transfers based on wiretapping.
“She was misled instead of taking firm action against Anil Deshmukh,” he said.
He said Deshmukh had been interfering in various investigations and was instructing the police officers to do the same in the particular way that he desired.
‘I wanted to involve the BJP leaders’
Citing one such incident, Singh alleged that Deshmukh wanted to implicate BJP leaders in the suicide case of Deputy Mohan Delkar of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, IANS reported.
Deputy Mohan Delkar was found dead in his hotel room in Mumbai on February 22 and left a 15-page suicide note.
Singh said that after the initial investigations and report, he launched an investigation into the matter and sought the advice of the police department’s legal cell.
“The petitioner was pressured time and again by the Minister of the Interior, Government of Maharashtra to inquire into the role of certain BJP leaders and in some way implicate them. It is alleged that there was tremendous pressure to give the whole episode a political angle. The petitioner, however, did not succumb to the pressure, “Singh said in the petition.
‘Illegal transfer’
Singh said his transfer from the Mumbai PC post was “illegal” and “arbitrary” without the completion of the two-year fixed minimum tenure.
“This transfer was carried out maliciously allegedly under section 22 N (2) of the Maharashtra Police Act 1951 with the reason that the transfer was necessary for administrative requirements,” he said in his guilty plea.
The senior police officer further said that it is an established law that orders must be based on the reasons contained therein and the reasons cannot be supplemented later.
Referring to the incident of February 25 in Antilia, residence of the businessman Mukesh Ambani, where a car with explosives was found causing a bomb scare, Singh said he believes the motive for the transfer noted by the state government in his file is to ensure a free and fair investigation into the case.
He said such a case is now being investigated by the NIA, and Sachin Vaze, an officer with the Criminal Intelligence Unit, Mumbai, has been arrested for questioning in custody by the NIA.
“The petitioner’s office and its officers had provided all necessary assistance for the ATS and the NIA to carry out a free and fair investigation into the Antilia incident. It is not even the case with the NIA that the petitioner has in any way obstructed a free and fair investigation by the NIA, ”he said.
Singh said that such transfer in the aforementioned circumstances is for reasons “tainted with malice”, when there is not an iota of material or evidence – far from the proof – found or even imputed against him and is based solely on conjecture, conjecture and pure speculation. .
(With inputs from PTI, IANS)
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