Bir Singh

A commissioned army officer, Major Manan Tiwari, allegedly shot and killed his junior, Subedar Major Om Bahadur Khand, at close range with an assault rifle during a firing practice session at the Pulgaon Central Ammunition Depot. The incident, described as accidental by an army spokesperson, resulted in multiple bullet wounds for the deceased JCO.

Former Mumbai police chief Param bir singh on Thursday approached Bombay high court to mention his quashing petition against an FIR and to seek continuation of a statement made by Maharashtra government to not take coercive steps, including arrest, as an assurance given earlier was to continue till October 21.

The Bombay high court on Wednesday reserved for orders an issue raised by the state and DGP Sanjay Pandey to the maintainability of ex-Mumbai police chief Param bir singh’s challenge to preliminary enquiries,

There is fresh trouble for former police commissioner Param bir singh. The state government has ordered an investigation against him in the alleged Urban Land Ceiling (ULC) scam that he probed when he was Thane police commissioner in 2017. Police sources said the home department has assigned the task to a special investigation team under DCP (Thane crime branch), Laxmikant Patil.

The anti-corruption bureau (ACB) has initiated three discreet inquiries against former Mumbai police commissioner Param bir singh based on separate complaints filed by two police officers and two alleged bookies.

Ever since Dilip Walse Patil took over the reins of the home department from Anil Deshmukh in April, it was the biggest embarrassment for him when the law enforcing agencies failed to execute non-bailable warrant against former Mumbai police commissioner Parambir singh, allegedly involved in a series of extortion cases.

The Supreme Court order granting former Mumbai police commissioner Param bir singh protection from arrest in cases against him in the state, has come as an embarrassment to the MVA government. To make things worse, it has now emerged that the government missed the opportunity to press its case against Singh in the apex court -it had not filed a caveat in response to his appeal.

The Bombay high court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by former city police chief Param bir singh, holding that his plea for quashing of two preliminary inquiries ordered by the state government against him was not tenable before it.

The home department on Friday transferred an extortion case registered by Thane police against former Mumbai police commissioner Param bir singh, serving DCP Parag Manere, builder Sanjay Punamia, businessman Sunil Jain and one Manoj Ghatkar and three officers from Kopri police station to the state Crime Investigation Department (CID).

Inspector Anup Dange, who had complained to the ACB against former Mumbai police commissioner Param bir singh, on Friday sent a letter to the director general of ACB claiming that a witness in his case was being threatened by some political people”. Dange also alleged that “some people” were keeping tabs on his movements.

Adding an interesting footnote in the saga of ex-CP Param bir singh Vs former home minister Anil Deshmukh, Justice Kailash Uttamchand Chandiwal and Param bir singh, now posted as director general (Home Guards), have offices on the same floor.

The state on Wednesday expressed a desire not to continue its statement of May 24 assuring no coercive action, including arrest, against Mumbai’s former police commissioner Param bir singh, who has sought the quashing of an FIR lodged against him by the Thane police under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

The Maharashtra government has filed a counter-affidavit before the Supr-eme Court seeking dismissal of the special leave petition (SLP) submitted by former Mumbai police commissioner Param bir singh. The state said it had “no knowledge of any conversation having taken place” between him and incumbent director general of police Sanjay Pandey, and only learnt of the alleged exchange when Singh filed the petition.

The Maharashtra government-appointed Justice Chandiwal Commission on Tuesday imposed a Rs 5,000 fine on former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param bir singh.

Former Mumbai police commissioner Param bir singh has moved the Bombay high court challenging the order of a one-member inquiry committee summoning him to appear before it on August 6.

The Maharashtra government informed the Bombay high court that it would not arrest former Mumbai police chief Param bir singh till June 9 in connection with an FIR registered against him by a police officer Bhimrao Ghadge under the Atrocities Act and other offences