IPS PARAM BIR SINGH
After acting Director General of Police (DGP) Sanjay Pandey decided to recuse himself. days after IPS Param Bir Singh alleged that the former had allegedly offered to mediate between him and the state government, the Maharashtra Government decided to hold two inquiries against former Mumbai Police Commissioner Mr. Param Bir Singh by a three-member committee headed by a senior IAS officer.
Apparently, Mr. Singh had called the acting DGP and recorded the conversation in which Mr. Pandey had allegedly made his offer. He had attached the transcript of the conversation with Mr. Pandey in his petition filed last week in the Bombay High Court against the government’s decision to hold two probes against him.
A senior home department officer stated in an interview, “The decision to conduct these inquiries by a committee led by a senior IAS officer was taken at the meeting on Monday. It is important as the High Court has slated the hearing on Singh’s petition on May 4. The government will defend its decision in the high court and continue these inquiries against Singh.” He said the state government had roped in former Advocate General Darius Khambata to argue on its behalf, as Advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhakoni could not make it, having recently lost his father.
The government had directed Pandey to hold two inquiries against Singh, of which one was ordered on April 1 under service rules and another on April 20, after the corruption charges leveled by a police inspector.
IPS RASHMI SHUKLA
The former police commissioner of state intelligence, IPS officer Ms. Rashmi Shukla who is currently posted in Hyderabad, has filed a petition before the Bombay High Court seeking quashing of FIR registered by the cybercrime police station, BKC, Mumbai or to alternatively transfer its probe to the CBI.
Denying committing any offence as alleged, she said the FIR discloses “malafides and is itself a conspiracy to suppress high crimes by power politicians and interested police officers.”
As an interim relief, she is seeking that the investigation be stayed and police be retrained from taking any coercive steps against her.
