Antilia blasts case: Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh suspended

Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has signed the file that had recommended that Singh be suspended. The Maharashtra government had constituted an inquiry under IAS officer Debashish Chakraborty’s report on Param Bir Singh, the report found Singh guilty of violating the All India Civil Service Rules. The report, according to sources, found serious lapses in the manner that Singh handled the Antilia blasts case. Singh has been accussed of keeping the government misleading them about the case. Singh is also accussed of not revealing to the government the truth about Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Waze’s involvement in the case.

Singh was unceremoniously shunted out as the Mumbai Police Commissioner after revelations tjat Mumbai police officers like Sachin Waze were involved in the murder of a witness Mansukh Hiren in whose vehicle explosives were placed near the home of Industrialist Mukesh Ambani. Vaze was also later found to have parked the car near Ambani’s home.

Immediately after he was shunted out as the Mumbai Police Commissioner, Singh wrote a letter to the state government in which he had claimed that he was being victimized and the then Home Minister Anil Deshmukh had been bypassing him in giving orders to police officers like Vaze. Singh had alleged that Deshmukh had even demanded Rs 100 crores as extortion money from police officers that were to be collected from Hotels, dance bars in the city. Deshmukh has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the case.