Bir Singh

A commissioned army officer, Major Manan Tiwari, allegedly shot and killed his junior, Subedar Major Om Bahadur Khand, at close range with an assault rifle during a firing practice session at the Pulgaon Central Ammunition Depot. The incident, described as accidental by an army spokesperson, resulted in multiple bullet wounds for the deceased JCO.

Former Mumbai police chief Param bir singh on Thursday approached Bombay high court to mention his quashing petition against an FIR and to seek continuation of a statement made by Maharashtra government to not take coercive steps, including arrest, as an assurance given earlier was to continue till October 21.

The Bombay high court on Wednesday reserved for orders an issue raised by the state and DGP Sanjay Pandey to the maintainability of ex-Mumbai police chief Param bir singh’s challenge to preliminary enquiries,

There is fresh trouble for former police commissioner Param bir singh. The state government has ordered an investigation against him in the alleged Urban Land Ceiling (ULC) scam that he probed when he was Thane police commissioner in 2017. Police sources said the home department has assigned the task to a special investigation team under DCP (Thane crime branch), Laxmikant Patil.

The anti-corruption bureau (ACB) has initiated three discreet inquiries against former Mumbai police commissioner Param bir singh based on separate complaints filed by two police officers and two alleged bookies.

Ever since Dilip Walse Patil took over the reins of the home department from Anil Deshmukh in April, it was the biggest embarrassment for him when the law enforcing agencies failed to execute non-bailable warrant against former Mumbai police commissioner Parambir singh, allegedly involved in a series of extortion cases.

The Supreme Court order granting former Mumbai police commissioner Param bir singh protection from arrest in cases against him in the state, has come as an embarrassment to the MVA government. To make things worse, it has now emerged that the government missed the opportunity to press its case against Singh in the apex court -it had not filed a caveat in response to his appeal.

The Bombay high court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by former city police chief Param bir singh, holding that his plea for quashing of two preliminary inquiries ordered by the state government against him was not tenable before it.

The home department on Friday transferred an extortion case registered by Thane police against former Mumbai police commissioner Param bir singh, serving DCP Parag Manere, builder Sanjay Punamia, businessman Sunil Jain and one Manoj Ghatkar and three officers from Kopri police station to the state Crime Investigation Department (CID).

Inspector Anup Dange, who had complained to the ACB against former Mumbai police commissioner Param bir singh, on Friday sent a letter to the director general of ACB claiming that a witness in his case was being threatened by some political people”. Dange also alleged that “some people” were keeping tabs on his movements.

Adding an interesting footnote in the saga of ex-CP Param bir singh Vs former home minister Anil Deshmukh, Justice Kailash Uttamchand Chandiwal and Param bir singh, now posted as director general (Home Guards), have offices on the same floor.

The state on Wednesday expressed a desire not to continue its statement of May 24 assuring no coercive action, including arrest, against Mumbai’s former police commissioner Param bir singh, who has sought the quashing of an FIR lodged against him by the Thane police under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

The Maharashtra government has filed a counter-affidavit before the Supr-eme Court seeking dismissal of the special leave petition (SLP) submitted by former Mumbai police commissioner Param bir singh. The state said it had “no knowledge of any conversation having taken place” between him and incumbent director general of police Sanjay Pandey, and only learnt of the alleged exchange when Singh filed the petition.

The Maharashtra government-appointed Justice Chandiwal Commission on Tuesday imposed a Rs 5,000 fine on former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param bir singh.

Former Mumbai police commissioner Param bir singh has moved the Bombay high court challenging the order of a one-member inquiry committee summoning him to appear before it on August 6.

The Maharashtra government informed the Bombay high court that it would not arrest former Mumbai police chief Param bir singh till June 9 in connection with an FIR registered against him by a police officer Bhimrao Ghadge under the Atrocities Act and other offences

The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked Param bir singh to approach the Bombay high court. Referring to allegations levelled by the cop and the minister against each other, an SC bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and R Subhash Reddy said it seems that parties in the case were “hunky dory” for a long time, but they started making allegations and counter-allegations as a consequence of their falling out.

A day after the National Investigating Agency arrested former encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma for his alleged role in the case involving planting of explosives outside the residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani and the murder of Thane trader Mansukh Hiran, NCP leader and rural development minister Hasan Mushriff said the needle of suspicion points to controversial former Mumbai police chief Param bir singh.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government on Wednesday night decided to conduct a judicial probe under the Commission of Inquiry Act into former Mumbai police commissioner Param bir singh’s ‘letter bomb’.

Thane police on Friday registered a fourth case against IPS officer Param bir singh along with former encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma, erstwhile deputy commissioner Deepak Devraj and gangster Ravi Pujari on a complaint by bookies Ketan Tanna and Sonu Jalan that the policemen had extorted nearly Rs 5 crore from them in 2018.

Former Mumbai police commissioner Param bir singh has submitted an affidavit before the state-appointed one-man commission of Justice K U Chandiwal, saying that the purpose of constitution of the committee has ended in view of issues adjudicated by the Bombay high court and Supreme Court and that its continuation “is now merely an attempt to interfere with the investigation being conducted by the CBI.”

Saamna has alleged that the BJP was using former Mumbai police commissioner Param bir singh to topple the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) regime in the state. The Sena mouthpiece then warned that any attempt to bring down the MVA government would trigger “fire”.

A week after the CID failed to serve a bailable warrant against Param bir singh as they could not find him at his address, state home minister Dilip Walse Patil on Thursday said the MVA government had launched a massive search to trace the former Mumbai police chief for his alleged involvement in serious crimes. When asked if Singh had gone to London or Russia, as alleged in certain quarters, Walse Patil said he had no such information.

The state CID on Wednesday submitted a report to the Justice Chandiwal Commission saying it had made relentless efforts to trace former police commissioner Param bir singh to serve him a bailable warrant but he could not be traced.

According to the 3-page order on Param bir singh’s suspension signed by joint secretary Venkatesh Bhat, Singh has been suspended with immediate effect in view of cases of extortion and corruption registered against him at Marine Drive, Bazarpeth (Kalyan), Kopari and Thane nagar police stations.