Mumbai Crime Branch issues notice to Param Bir Singh in extortion case

Param Bir Singh. File Pic

The Mumbai Crime Branch has issued a notice to former police commissioner Param Bir Singh in connection with an extortion case. Singh has been asked to appear before the agency on October 12.

A copy of the notice, issued by unit-11 of the crime branch, has also been pasted on the door of Singh's official residence at Nilima Building in Walkeshwar.

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The case was registered at Goregaon police station on the complaint of builder-cum-hotelier Bimal Agrawal. Besides Singh, dismissed police officer Sachin Waze, Sumit Singh alias Chintu, Alpesh Patel, Vinay Singh alias Babloo and Riyaz Bhati are named as accused in the FIR.

Param Bir Singh was shunted out as Mumbai police chief and transferred to the Home Guard after Sachin Waze's arrest in the case of an SUV with explosives found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's south Mumbai residence.

Singh later accused then state home minister Anil Deshmukh of asking Waze to collect Rs 100 crore from hotels and bars in Mumbai every month, a charge which Deshmukh denied. Subsequently, while Deshmukh resigned, police registered four cases of alleged extortion against Singh in Mumbai and Thane.

Also, a case under SC-ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is pending against him. In the last few weeks the IPS officer has not been found at his residence in Mumbai or other known addresses including one in Chandigarh, police sources said.

With inputs from agencies

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