Mumbai: CBI director Subodh Jaiswal The investigation into police transfers and postings during the former may consider itself a “potential subject” for investigation. Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh’s tenure, the Maharashtra government said before the Bombay HC on Thursday.
State’s special senior counsel Darius Khambata said Jaiswal was the Director General of Police from 2019 to December 2020, and was also the vice-chairman and chairman of two police establishment boards in the state, which recommend and decide the categories of police postings. He said that if the CBI is probing police postings and transfers during Deshmukh’s tenure, it may have to ask why. jaiswal Recommended a posting and that “it would be absurd for the CBI to call its director” and “would boggle the mind… that would be the very antithesis of a fair investigation”.
The state had approached the HC for an order to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to replace the CBI probe into allegations of corruption in police transfers and postings in its FIR against Deshmukh and during his tenure, and by court or court. The High Court was approached to oversee the investigation. a retired judge.
Argument before the bench of Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice Nitin Jamdar Sarang Kotwalwith the Attorney General Tushar Mehta And Additional Solicitor General Aman Lekhia, Khambata said there was a “functional bias” to the probe when Jaiswal was appointed as CBI director in May 2021.
As an interim relief, the state wanted a stay on further investigation by the CBI in the FIR against Deshmukh. The CBI had summoned Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte, former Additional Chief Secretary (Home), and state DGP Sanjay Pandey for its probe, which ended on October 21. The AGs and ASGs, including Anil Singh in Mumbai, sought time to file a reply to the opposition of the state’s plea as “factually and legally incorrect” and “an attempt to delay the investigation and help the accused”. The HC gave time till October 28 to the Center to file its reply.
Khambata said that at the center of the investigation was the surveillance report of the former state intelligence chief Rashmi ShuklaWho submitted his report to the then DGP Jaiswal. “We have a stellar system of law,” he said, but if the CBI continues the probe, “why has Deshmukh not been kept as the CBI chief? It is as good as that.”
State’s special senior counsel Darius Khambata said Jaiswal was the Director General of Police from 2019 to December 2020, and was also the vice-chairman and chairman of two police establishment boards in the state, which recommend and decide the categories of police postings. He said that if the CBI is probing police postings and transfers during Deshmukh’s tenure, it may have to ask why. jaiswal Recommended a posting and that “it would be absurd for the CBI to call its director” and “would boggle the mind… that would be the very antithesis of a fair investigation”.
The state had approached the HC for an order to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to replace the CBI probe into allegations of corruption in police transfers and postings in its FIR against Deshmukh and during his tenure, and by court or court. The High Court was approached to oversee the investigation. a retired judge.
Argument before the bench of Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice Nitin Jamdar Sarang Kotwalwith the Attorney General Tushar Mehta And Additional Solicitor General Aman Lekhia, Khambata said there was a “functional bias” to the probe when Jaiswal was appointed as CBI director in May 2021.
As an interim relief, the state wanted a stay on further investigation by the CBI in the FIR against Deshmukh. The CBI had summoned Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte, former Additional Chief Secretary (Home), and state DGP Sanjay Pandey for its probe, which ended on October 21. The AGs and ASGs, including Anil Singh in Mumbai, sought time to file a reply to the opposition of the state’s plea as “factually and legally incorrect” and “an attempt to delay the investigation and help the accused”. The HC gave time till October 28 to the Center to file its reply.
Khambata said that at the center of the investigation was the surveillance report of the former state intelligence chief Rashmi ShuklaWho submitted his report to the then DGP Jaiswal. “We have a stellar system of law,” he said, but if the CBI continues the probe, “why has Deshmukh not been kept as the CBI chief? It is as good as that.”
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