A division bench comprising Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G.S. Kulkarni has asked the CBI to complete its preliminary probe within 15 days on the issues raised by Singh in his letter-bomb last month.Howe
Anil Deshmukh Steps Down as Maharashtra Home Minister after Bombay High Court Orders Probe
Deshmukh resigned on April 5 on moral grounds , reports said. Deshmukh has tendered his resignation to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray.
| 5 April 2021 10:52 AM GMT
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh today tendered his resignation after the Bombay High Court has ordered the CBI to carry out a preliminary probe into former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh s allegations against him.
Deshmukh resigned on April 5 on moral grounds , reports said. Deshmukh has tendered his resignation to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray. I don t want to continue as Home Minister as an investigation is on, said the resignation letter of Deshmukh, who belongs to Sharad Pawar s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
Updated Apr 05, 2021 · 12:02 pm Photo of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh. | Anil Deshmukh/ Facebook
The Bombay High Court on Monday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry into former Mumbai Police chief Param Bir Singh’s corruption allegations against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh,
Live Law reported. The court said that the preliminary inquiry must be completed in 15 days.
The court was hearing Singh’s petition for a CBI investigation against Deshmukh.
“Interest of justice will be done if the director of CBI is allowed to conduct preliminary inquiry,” a division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni said. “Once preliminary inquiry is complete, director [of] CBI be at discretion to further course of action.”
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh resigned today citing "moral grounds" hours after the Bombay High Court ordered a preliminary CBI investigation into former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh's allegations against him.