Dismissed cop Sachin Waze withdraws plea in Bombay High Court against judicial panel orders

Dismissed policeman Sachin Waze on Wednesday unconditionally withdrew his petition in the Bombay High Court challenging two orders of the panel set up to probe into the corruption allegations against former Maharashtra minister Anil DeshmukhWaze who is presently in jail after his arrest in the Antilia bomb scare and murder case of businessman Mansukh Hiran withdrew his plea after the High Court on Tuesday said it was not inclined to grant any reliefA division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Madhav Jamdar had on Tuesday expressed its displeasure with the former policeman for suppressing facts and not submitting all the documents in his petitionThe bench had noted that Wazes petition did not annex the affidavit submitted by him to the Chandiwal commission along with his application seeking to retract an earlier statement made by him on DeshmukhThe court had then asked Wazes advocate Anil Anturkar to take instructions on whether he was willing to withdraw the petitionIf he Waze does not wish to withdraw then we will dismiss it with strictures Justice Patel had said on TuesdayWhen the matter came up for hearing on Wednesday Anturkar informed the court that Waze was withdrawing the petition unconditionallyThe court accepted the same Waze in his petition challenged the legality validity and propriety of the two orders passed by the onemember commission of retired Justice K U Chandiwal and sought to quash the sameThe first order of the panel refused Wazes application seeking to summon the Joint Commissioner of Police Crime Milind Bharambe for examination while in the second order the commission denied him permission to retract his earlier statement against DeshmukhWaze had filed an application before the Chandiwal Commission on January 21 this year seeking to summon the then joint commissioner of police Crime Bharambe for examination before the CommissionBharambe had written a letter and later authored a report on March 25 2021 Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh had presented a copy of this secret letter along with Bharambes report on March 30 2021 before the commissionWaze had sought to call Bharambe before the Commission claiming that the latters report is prejudicial to his interestHowever the Commission dismissed his application on January 24On February 9 Waze had made an application seeking to retract his statement with regard to Deshmukh He had said that neither the former minister nor his associates or people related to him have ever made any monetary demand or instructed him to extort Rs 100 crore from the citys bar ownersAccording to Wazes plea before the court he had filed an affidavit before the Commission along with his application for retraction of his statementThe former policeman had claimed that he was under immense and tremendous pressure due to his arrest by the Mumbai crime branchWaze has alleged that he was mentally harassed and victimised so as to affect his psyche and his state of mind and claimed that he was subjected to severe mental torture and harassment apparently by Deshmukh and it continued even after his resignationConsequently when the petitioner was put to certain questions at the time of his crossexamination before the committee he gave incorrect answers the plea statedWaze in his petition claimed that he is a whistleblower and has been falsely implicated in a series of criminal cases consequent to political vendetta arising out of the shocking revelations disclosed by him in the public domain through his senior officerThe former policeman has claimed that he had confided in his senior officer about a series of demands made by Deshmukh and based on this the senior officer had written to the state government on March 20 2021 following which a onemember committee headed by retired Justice K U Chandiwal was formedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever