Even as a Special NIA court has granted permission to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to question sacked police official Sachin Waze at the Taloja Jail in connection with the alleged corruption case lodged against former state home minister Anil Deshmukh, the financial probe agency will soon also question former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, sources said. According to informed sources in the ED, Singh will be called for questioning in the coming days.

Earlier in the day, ED officials said that the agency will question Waze inside the jail premises in Mumbai. On July 8, a Special Court has granted permission to the ED to visit Waze and record his statement in the jail. It may be recalled that on May 19, Waze had claimed to the ED that he had collected Rs 4.70 crore from bars in Mumbai between December 2020-February 2021 allegedly on Deshmukh's orders. Waze said that he later handed over the amount to the ex-minister's PA Kundan Shinde, who is now arrested in the same case, along with another PA Sanjeev Palande.