Param Bir Singh

Ex-Mumbai Police chief Param Bir Singh, five other cops booked on extortion charges

Singh was shunted out as Mumbai police commissioner in March after the Sachin Waze controversy. He is facing multiple FIRs in separate cases including one under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act registered in April this year

Bhima Koregaon violence: Dalit intellectuals dismiss Maharashtra Police's claims of instigation by radical Left

The base of all the press statements made by the Maharashtra Police is that these ‘Maoists and Maoist-sympathisers’ instigated Dalits to riot at Bhima Koregaon, through their anti-State songs at Elgar Parishad, a programme organised by individuals and organisations in Pune on 31 December, 2017, a day before commemoration of Shourya Divas at Bhima Koregaon.

CBI registers FIR against ex-Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh, conducts searches

Former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh had alleged that Deshmukh had asked police officers to extort Rs 100 crore per month from bars and restaurants

CBI summons ex-Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh for questioning on 14 April

The notice calling Deshmukh to join the CBI probe was issued on Monday morning, a day after his two aides Sanjeev Palande and Kundan recorded their statements before the agency, the officials said

CBI questions Anil Deshmukh's personal staff in probe on corruption allegations made by Param Bir Singh

The ex-Maharashtra home minister's PA Kundan Shinde and personal secretary Sanjeev Palande were asked to appear before CBI in connection with its preliminary enquiry, as per the Bombay HC's order

‘Serious allegations’: SC rejects plea by Anil Deshmukh, Maharashtra govt against CBI probe

The former home minister had challenged the Bombay HC order directing a CBI probe into allegations of corruption levelled against him by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh

Anil Deshmukh resigns as Maharashtra home minister hours after Bombay HC orders CBI probe into corruption allegations

A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish Kulkarni had on Monday said this was an 'extraordinary' and 'unprecedented' case that warranted an independent inquiry

The real business of politics: Parties are united by one ideology — maximising profit, maintaining systems of power

The politicians are only the stars of the election movies in which voters are the audience and party workers, the extras. The real power, ultimately, resides with those who decide which star and which script to back: the financiers.

'Are you above the law?': Bombay HC slams Param Bir Singh for not filing complaint against Anil Deshmukh

The bench orally observed that without an FIR, it cannot pass an order directing an independent agency to investigate the matter

No one should play spoilsport, says Ajit Pawar on Sanjay Raut's 'accidental home minister' comment

Earlier today, Raut called Anil Deshmukh an "accidental home minister", claiming he got the post after senior NCP leaders like Jayant Patil and Dilip Walse-Patil refused the responsibility