CID summons Mumbai cop who accused Param Bir Singh of graft

Former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh. File pic

The Criminal Investigation Department has summoned police inspector Bhimrao Ghadge, who has levelled corruption charges against former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh, an official said on Monday.

In a related development, alleged cricket bookie Sonu Jalan, who has lodged a separate extortion complaint against Singh, appeared before CID officials for the third time on Monday and submitted what he claimed was "evidence" to back the charges.

The CID has asked Ghadge, now posted at Akola in the Vidarbha region, to appear before it on Wednesday at Konkan Bhavan in Navi Mumbai.

Last month, the Maharashtra police had registered an FIR against Singh on the basis of Ghadge's complaint, which also names more than two dozen other police officers.

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The FIR was registered at Akola against 33 people, including 28 policemen, the official said. Besides Singh, now Director-General, Maharashtra Home Guard, others named in the FIR include DCPs Parag Manere, Sanjay Shinde and Sunil Bharadwaj, ACPs Vijay Pulkar and D B Kamble and senior inspector Dilip Suryavanshi.

A former law officer and an assistant chemical analyser with a forensic lab have also been named, the official said.

The Akola police had filed a Zero FIR (mode of lodging FIR in any police station irrespective of the area where the offence is committed) and it was later transferred to Thane city cops.

Inspector Ghadge had made a series of allegations of corruption against Singh and other officers, during the period when the former Mumbai commissioner was posted in Thane.

Ghadge worked at the Thane police commissionerate from 2015 to 2018.

He has claimed that Singh, as the Thane city police chief, had allegedly asked him not to charge-sheet certain individuals against whom FIRs had been registered.

Ghadge has also alleged that after he refused to obey Singh's instructions, five FIRs were registered against him and he was suspended.

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No. of police personnel named in the FIR

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