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).
Bombay HC directs CBI to conduct preliminary inquiry against Anil Deshmukh
By News Desk| Updated: 5th April 2021 2:13 pm IST
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday directed CBI to conduct preliminary inquiry in to corruption allegations against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh. ‘CBI inquiry shall be completed in 15 days, then CBI Director can decide the further course of action in accordance with law’, ordered the bench in a PIL filed by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh and three other similar petitions.
On Wednesday, a division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni reserved its order on the petitions, following marathon arguments on admission, interim reliefs and the State’s objection to the petition’s maintainability. Ex- Mumbai Police Chief Param Bir Singh had sought an “immediate and fair investigation” on the various “corrupt malpractices” of Maharashtra’s Home Minister Anil Deshmukh before “evidences ar
Bombay HC orders CBI probe into Param Bir Singh’s letter
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Ex-Mumbai Police chief had accused Home Minister Anil Deshmukh of extortion
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Ex-Mumbai Police chief had accused Home Minister Anil Deshmukh of extortion
The Bombay High Court on Monday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to initiate a preliminary inquiry within 15 days into the letter by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh containing allegations of corruption against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.
In a 56-page order, a Division Bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G.S. Kulkarni said, “Mr. Deshmukh is the Home Minister. The police department is under his control and direction. There can be no fair, impartial, unbiased and untainted probe, if the same were entrusted to the State police force. As of necessity, the probe has to be entrusted to an independent agency like the CBI.”
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 5 (ANI): Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Dilip Walse Patil has been given the charge of the Home Department following the resignation of Anil Deshmukh amidst corruption allegations against him.