Muristek
New Delhi, April 13
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken over the probe into five cases of alleged misconduct and corruption against former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh from the Maharashtra Police, officials in the agency said today.
They said the CBI's Special Crime unit registered its own FIRs late Tuesday evening. All five FIRs registered in Thane and Mumbai have now been re-registered by the CBI as its own cases.
The SC had on March 24 transferred the investigation of these cases to the CBI, saying "a very murky affair is going on amid echelons of power".
"The exigencies in the advancement of principles of justice require the investigation to be transferred to the CBI. We are not saying appellant (Singh) is a whistleblower or anyone involved in this case is washed with milk," the Bench stated while allowing the appeal filed by Param Bir Singh. The Bench also refused to revoke the Singh's suspension and said all future FIRs would also be transferred to the CBI. Singh is facing multiple cases of extortion, corruption and misconduct, and was removed from the post of Mumbai Police chief over his alleged mishandling of the Antilia bomb scare case. —