An FIR under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was registered against Singh in April in Thane on the complaint of Inspector BR Ghadge, attached to Akola city police.
The Maharashtra government on Friday told the Bombay High Court that it would not take any “coercive action” against former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh in a case registered under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act till October 21. .
In a separate case, the state government gave a similar assurance to the court not to take action against another IPS officer Rashmi Shukla.
Government’s counsel YP Yagnik said that the government was assuring no coercive action (like arrest) against Param Bir Singh on May 24, 2021.
A bench of Justices SS Shinde and NJ Jamadar made the statement after the Thane police sought quashing of the FIR lodged against him after adjourning till October 20 the hearing on a petition filed by Singh.
An FIR under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was registered against Singh in April in Thane on the complaint of Inspector BR Ghadge, attached to Akola city police.
Ghadge, who belongs to the Scheduled Caste community, claimed that he had refused to comply with Singh’s ‘illegal orders’ in favor of some accused persons, and then the IPS officer conspired with other officers to extort them. implicated in cases.
Incidentally, a lookout notice has been issued against Singh saying he may leave the country, Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil told reporters on Thursday.
Singh was removed from the post of Mumbai Police Commissioner in connection with the finding of an SUV containing explosives near the house of industrialist Mukesh Ambani here. Singh later accused the then state home minister Anil Deshmukh of corruption.
Meanwhile, the bench adjourned till October 20 hearing a petition filed by IPS officer Rashmi Shukla in the leak of her 2020 report on alleged illegal phone tapping and alleged corruption in police transfers and postings. There was a demand to quash the FIR. Maharashtra.
She was heading the state intelligence department when Shukla prepared the report. It is alleged that phones of politicians and officials were tapped illegally and reports were deliberately leaked to opposition leaders.
The HC adjourned the hearing due to paucity of time and the state government assured that it would not take any coercive action against Shukla till October 21.
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