New Delhi: Like the former Police Commissioner Mumbai Bir Bir Singh argues that investigations in criminal cases that nestly hand over the country’s police to CBI, the Maharashtra government sought the transfer of the probe against the former Minister of State, Deshmukh of the CBI and the main institution handed over that the state government tried Endersing his investigation, the Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed deep concerns over the deficit of trust among institutions, calling it “a very disturbing scenario”.
Judge Sanjay Kishan Kulul and M M Sundresh told the police peak that he had led and served all the power through his professional career but still did not believe in it.
The bench said it was no good business.
The bench heard a request by Param Bir Singh who approached the court through his lawyer Natasha Dalmia, seeking court protection and for the transfer of probes in criminal cases submitted by CBI investigations for “free and fair”.
The court has the last date giving him protection from arrest and looking for the CBI response.
Supporting the request for IPS officers, Lawyers General Tushar Mehta told the agency bench ready to take over the cases that can be investigated separately or with an ongoing investigation against Deshmukh.
He said “overlapping the two cases are very clear” and the state can make the body’s duty very difficult to conclude the probe.
However, the Maharashtra government said it would be the interests of justice to submit an investigation against Singh from state police to the central body.
Senior advocacy Darius Khambata, emerged for the Maharashtra government, told the bench that the state had appealed at the Supreme Court to challenge the command of the Bombay High Court for a sitting investigation, not the CBI investigation against Deshmukh.
The country opposed the CBI’s probe against the former minister on the grounds that the current agency director was a witness, if not accused, in this case when he served the state police at that time.
Noting that the appeal has been submitted in court and the results of the case can have pads in the case of Singh’s param too, the bench to suspend hearing.
Senior Advocate Puneet Bali, which appeared for Singh, though, begging the state government has initiated the department’s action against his client and seeking protection in the process.
But the bench refused his request and said, “We give you enough protection.
We don’t want to give more.” Shows “possible bias” in the ongoing probe by Maharashtra police in criminal cases that nesting against Singh, the Supreme Court in December said it was the prime facie view that the investigation of another agency.
However, it allows state police to continue the investigation.