Inclined to dismiss plea filed by Sachin Waze against judicial panel order: Bombay HC

The Bombay High Court said it was inclined to dismiss a petition filed by dismissed policeman Sachin Waze 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 in his petition challenged the legality validity and propriety of the two orders passed by the Chandiwal Commission 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 Deshmukh A division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Madhav Jamdar however said it was not inclined to grant any relief and said it would dismiss the petition Wazes counsel Anil Anturkar then sought that the matter be posted on Wednesday so that he could take instructions from the former policeman on whether he would prefer to withdraw the pleaYou Waze either withdraw the petition or we dismiss it with strictures the court said Waze 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 Commission Bharambe 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 March 30 2021 before the commissionWaze had sought to call Bharambe before the Commission claiming that the latters report is prejudicial to his interest However the Commission dismissed his application on January 24 On 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 owners However a month later Waze sought to retract the statement which the commission did not permit According to Wazes plea before the court he had filed an affidavit before the Commission along with his application for retraction of his statement The former policeman had claimed that he was under immense and tremendous pressure due to his arrest by the Mumbai crime branchHe has alleged that he was iquestmentally harassed and victimised so as to affect his psyche and his state of mindiquest and claimed that he was iquestsubjected to severe mental torture and harassment apparently by Deshmukh and it continued even after his resignationiquest iquestConsequently when the petitioner was put certain questions at the time of his cross examination before the Honble One Member High Level Committee the petitioner gave incorrect answers Wazes plea readWaze in his plea claimed that he is a whistle blower 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 officer The 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 KU 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