Param Bir Singh forced me to file complaint against Dawood Ibrahim, kin: Builder

MUMBAI: In a fresh allegation against former Mumbai commissioner of police Param Bir Singh, builder Shyam Sundar Agarwal has accused him of forcing to lodge a complaint against underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his brothers Iqbal Kaskar and Anees Ibrahim. Kaskar was later arrested.
The FIR lodged in October 2017 was one of the sensational cases supervised by Singh, then police commissioner of Thane.Agarwal, who is also the complainant against Singh in an FIR registered at Marine Drive police station, has written a 26-page complaint to state home minister Dilip Walse Patil and director general of police Sanjay Pandey.
Agarwal has alleged that encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma called him to his office at the Thane anti-extortion cell (AEC) and threatened to book him under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) if he didn’t sign some documents. The next day, he learnt that he was made the complainant in the case against Dawood, his two brothers, Bharat Jain, Tony Lewis and others. Sharma was then heading the Thane AEC.
Agarwal has claimed that this was done at the behest of his business partner-turned-rival Sanjay Punamia. Singh and Punamia are co-accused in the FIR lodged at Marine Drive police station. This was done to extort money, Agarwal said. The letter said, “It is extremely ironical that I am shown as partner of Chhota Shakeel in a Juhu case where Punamia alleged that Shakeel threatened him at my behest, whereas in the Thane case, I am shown as a complainant against the Dawood gang.’’
Agarwal said that Punamia with whom he had a civil dispute, with the help of Singh, had filed 17 FIRs against him. Of these 14 have been closed either by the investigating agency or by various courts for want of sufficient evidence. “Three FIRs are still pending which I am facing judiciously,” said Agarwal.