CBI registers case against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh

 

The CBI has registered an FIR against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh and others. After this, the house was raided on Saturday.

Former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh's house was raided by the CBI on Saturday morning. 

Earlier on Friday, the Central Investigation Agency had filed a corruption case against him. The preliminary inquiry by the CBI on corruption charges against Deshmukh was completed on Friday.

The investigating agency has registered a case related to allegations of corruption leveled by former Mumbai top police officer Parambir Singh. 

The investigation was handed over to the CBI by the Bombay High Court in the case. The court gave the investigating agency 15 days to decide whether a case of corruption can be registered. After registering the case, the CBI raided several places on Saturday.

Earlier, on 14 April on the orders of the Bombay High Court, the CBI interrogated him for eight hours on Wednesday as a preliminary inquiry in connection with the corruption charges against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh. 

Former Mumbai Police chief Parambir Singh has made allegations of corruption against Deshmukh.

Attempting to tarnish the image of the state government-

Sources said that Deshmukh denied the allegations made by Singh during his interrogation and told the officials that this was an attempt to tarnish the image of the state government.

After being removed from the post of Mumbai Police Commissioner last month, Singh had written a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray saying that Deshmukh has targeted some police officers, including Vaje, to raise Rs 100 crore every month from restaurants and bars. Deshmukh denied these allegations.

On the orders of Bombay High Court, CBI is conducting preliminary inquiry in the case of Deshmukh. Deshmukh resigned from his post after a preliminary inquiry was ordered. 

The CBI has so far recorded statements of Singh, Sachin Waje, Deputy Commissioner of Police Raju Bhujbal, Assistant Commissioner of Police Sanjay Patil, lawyer Jayashree Patil and hotel owner Mahesh Shetty. 

The central agency questioned Deshmukh's personal assistant Kundan Shinde and private secretary Sanjeev Pandey on Sunday.