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Julio Ribeiro Giving its judgment in a clutch of PILs filed before it, the Bombay High Court has very correctly directed the CBI to inquire into the accusation by ousted Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh against the state Home Minister that the latter had summoned two junior officials of the Crime Branch and demanded that they collect Rs 10 crore per month from liquor bars and other such operators and deposit the money with him. The accusation may be true, though figures could be exaggerated. It is not uncommon for Home Ministers in Maharashtra to summon Inspectors and instruct them on ‘official’ matters. All instructions should be channelised through the CP, but no CP has the gall to tell the minister that he should not break the chain of command. Param Bir himself, when he was a middle-ranking officer, used to visit the office of the ACS (Home) and remain closeted there for lengths of time. ....
The bureaucrat said it appeared that both the CM and state home minister Anil Deshmukh (of NCP) had not taken the disclosures as seriously as they should have, resulting in an embarrassment not only for Thackeray but also for NCP chief Sharad Pawar, the architect of the MVA government. Initially, Deshmukh, who has been blamed for inept handling of the situation, entrusted the probe to the state Anti-Terrorism Squad led by Jaijeet Singh. Later, after Thane businessman Mansukh Hiran’s body was found in a Thane creek, when Fadnavis made sensational disclosures about call data records pertaining to Waze and Hiran, which showed the two were in touch, the NIA stepped in and took over the probe into the explosives case. ....
Hemant Nagrale MUMBAI: Director general (legal and technical) Hemant Nagrale (58) on Thursday took over as Director General of Police from Subodh Jaiswal, who is all set to take over as the DG of the Central Industrial Security Force. An IPS officer of the 1987 batch, Nagrale will hold additional charge till a regular DGP is appointed. Home minister Anil Deshmukh said a regular DGP will be appointed soon after following the due process prescribed by Supreme Court. “We will submit the list of the 3 seniormost DGs to the Centre,” he said. On the seniority list, Jaiswal is followed by Sanjay Pande (1986 batch, in charge of Home Guards), Bipin Bihari (Police Housing Corporation), Surendra Pandey (prisons) and Nagrale (legal and technical), all belonging to the 1987 batch and Mumbai CP Parambir Singh (1988 batch). According to reports, the state will submit the names of Sanjay Pandey, Nagrale and Parambir Singh to the Union home ministry as Bihari is set to retire on Janua ....