An FIR has been registered against former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, DCP Parag Manere, and 31 other police personnel after a police inspector levelled corruption charges against him, a senior official said.
Inspector Bhimrao Ghadge in his complaint has made a series of allegations of corruption against Singh et al, in the period when the former Mumbai CP was posted with the Thane police.
Following the inquiry, the Anti Corruption Bureau was asked to investigate the allegations by the DGP. The city Kotwali police in Akola registered the FIR against the 33 police personnel under various sections ranging from criminal conspiracy, destruction of evidence, and sections of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities Act), 1989. A total of 27 sections have been applied in the FIR.
Ghadge, who was posted in Thane Commissionerate between 2015 and 2018, alleged that during his tenure, several officers in Thane Police Commissionerate under Singh had indulged in various acts of corruption. He also alleged that Singh had asked him to not charge-sheet certain individuals against whom FIRs had been registered. He further alleged that since he refused to obey the instructions, a total of five FIRs were registered against him and he was suspended.
Currently, Ghadge is posted with the police control room in Akola, where the FIR has been registered. So far, no arrests have been made in the case.
Ghadge’s letter also claimed that as Thane CP, Singh gave orders to police officers to extricate some influential people from criminal cases registered against them, allegedly in return for huge sums of money.
The letter further alleged that Singh accepted Rs 50 lakh to Rs 1 crore for posting of senior inspectors and that he insisted on being gifted gold biscuits on Diwali from all zonal DCPs, ACPs, and senior inspectors of Thane police.