Pressure heaped on Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh

On Thursday former Mumbai Commissioner, Param Bir Singh, was bagged in a case of demanding money and fraud by the Thane police. Param Bir Singh, a DCP rank officer of the Mumbai Economic Offences Wing (EOW), has also been booked in the FIR for reportedly demanding an amount of Rs 2 crore and land in Bhayandar.

 

The development was confirmed by the Thane Police Commissioner Jai Jeet Singh. From Thane, a real estate businessman, Sharad Agarwal, has reported that in the course when Param Bir Singh was Thane Police Commissioner, he with the DCP, crime who is now the DCP EOW Mumbai police had a meet with him at his residence in Thane and asked him to pay an amount of Rs 20 crore to free his uncle Shyamsundar Agarwal from police custody. Shyamsundar was arrested by Thane police.

 

“I was asked to pay an amount of Rs 20 crore by the DCP and was threatened that my uncle would be charged under MCOCA if I did not pay the amount,” the complainant said. The registered FIR in opposition to the former Commissioner of Mumbai is the third complaint. The second FIR was registered by the Marine Drive police along with other officers in a similar case of demanding money and land grabbing on Wednesday. The first FIR of demand for money and atrocities was registered at the Vakola police station by Inspector Bhimraj Ghadge.

 

Under the different sections of the IPC, the FIR has been registered which includes extortion and cheating against the former Mumbai top cop Param Bir Singh, Parag Manere, and others. Singh’s close assistants Sanjay Punamia, Sunil Jain, and Manoj Ghatkar are also booked. Punamia and Jain were arrested by Marine Drive police on Wednesday and remanded in police custody