Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has given permission to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to conduct an open investigation into allegations of corruption towards former Police Commissioner Mumbai Param Singh made by other police officers, an agency official said on Thursday.
, ACB has asked permission to start an open investigation towards Singh to the allegations leveled by Police Inspector Anup Dange and the government gave a nod on Wednesday, he said.
Dange was suspended last year and restored to police service earlier this year.
Official ACB said that the investigation was based on complaints by Dange, who alleged that he was approached by a man who claimed to be a relative of Param Singh and demanded Rs 2 Crore bribes to return it into the troops.
The previous Dange was attached to the Gamdevi police station and is now connected to the South Political control room Mumbai Regional Police.
He has written a letter to Maharashtra Additional Secretary of the Head (House) in February this year, where he has a level of accusation to Singh.
Dange accused Singh has tried to protect several people who have a lower world link from the law when he is DG ACB.
In his letter to the state government, Dange has said that in November 2019, when he went to close the pub in South Mumbai, the owner claimed to know Singh well.
Dange, however, continued to file a complaint after a fake broke out outside the pub while the police took action against the pub.
Dange accused after Singh became Mumbai Police Commissioner, he suspended him.
He claimed that someone who claimed to be a relative of Singh approached him and demanded Bribery Rs 2 Crore to return it.
“ACB, who did two wise questions against Singh based on complaints by DuE and other inspectors, had asked permission from the home department to continue with open questions (about complaints of dange),” he said.
Singh has transferred from the position of police chief of Mumbai in March this year for handling the case of scare security Mukesh Ambani.
A few days after that, Singh had written a letter to the Chairman of the Minister of Uddhav Thackeray who alleged that Anil Deshmukh, who was a minister at that time, had asked police officers Sachin Vazze to collect Rs 100 Crore every month from the bar and restaurant.
Deshmukh resigned as minister in April after the Bombay High Court ordered the CBI investigation into the allegations made against him by Singh.