SC to hear ex-Mumbai top cop's plea for CBI probe against Maharashtra Home Minister on March 24

Paran Bir Singh triggered a political storm in Maharashtra with his letter making grave allegations of extortion against the Home Minister on March 20

The Supreme Court will hear on Wednesday a plea by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh for a CBI probe into "various malpractices of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh".

Singh's petition filed on Monday was shown as listed in Supreme Court's website for hearing before a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and R Subhash Reddy on March 24.

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In his petition, the senior IPS officer asked the court to quash the March 17 order transferring him from the post of Mumbai police commissioner to head of Home Guards as "illegal and arbitrary".

Singh triggered a political storm in Maharashtra with his letter making grave allegations of extortion against the Home Minister on March 20.

In his writ petition, he claimed his transfer was "more of a politically influenced move by certain political parties, aggrieved by the revelation of the corrupt practices of Deshmukh to senior leaders and the Chief Minister."

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He reiterated his allegations against Deshmukh that he had given a collection target of Rs 100 crore per month from bars and restaurants to API Sachin Vaze of Crime Intelligence Unit, Mumbai, arrested in Antilia bomb scare case.

He said that if immediate directions for CBI probe was not ordered, CCTV camera footage at the residence of Deshmukh may be destroyed.