FIR registered against Param Bir Singh, others over police inspector’s complaint

Maharashtra police have filed an FIR against former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh after a police inspector levelled corruption expenses against him, a senior official mentioned on April 29.

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The FIR has been registered at Akola in Vidarbha against Mr. Singh, DCP Parag Manere and 26 different policemen.

The metropolis Kotwali police in Akola registered the FIR against the police personnel below varied sections starting from prison conspiracy, destruction of proof and sections of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities Act), 1989.

Akola police filed a Zero FIR (mode of lodging FIR in any police station no matter the offence dedicated in that space or another space) on the Kotwali police station and it has been transferred to the Thane metropolis police, the official advised PTI.

Police inspector Bhimrao Ghadge in his complaint had made a collection of allegations of corruption against Mr. Singh and different officers, within the interval when the previous Mumbai CP was posted with the Thane police.

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Mr. Ghadge who was posted in Thane police commissionerate throughout 2015-2018 has alleged that in his tenure, a number of officers there below Mr. Singh had indulged in varied acts of corruption. He additionally claimed that Mr. Singh had requested him to not charge-sheet sure people against whom FIRs had been registered.

Mr. Ghadge, who’s now posted within the Akola police management room, had additionally alleged that after he refused to obey Mr. Singh’s directions, 5 FIRs had been registered against him and he was suspended.