Maharashtra government files plea in High Court objecting to portions of FIR against Anil Deshmukh

The Maharashtra government has filed a petition before the Bombay High Court alleging that some portions of the First Information Report FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI against former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh were intended to destabilise the Shiv Senaled ruling coalition in the StateThe state has sought that the CBI be directed to remove the said portions from its FIR In its plea filed in the HC on April 30 the government claimed that the CBI in the FIR had included the issue of last years reinstatement of now suspended Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze and transfers of some other police officersThese issues were not part of the complaint registered against Deshmukh and former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh by lawyer Jaishri Patil the state government saidOn April 5 the high court while hearing a bunch of pleas including one filed by Patil had directed the CBI to initiate a preliminary inquiry into the allegations of misconduct and corruption made against Deshmukh by SinghPatil had registered a complaint following the allegations and sought that the alleged roles of both Deshmukh and Singh be probedPatil had earlier told the HC that she had lodged the complaint against both Deshmukh and Singh at the Malabar hill police station on March 21 but the police had failed to conduct a preliminary inquiry and register an FIRPatil had said in her complaint that both Deshmukh and Singh had acted in breach of their professional duties during the entire episodeThe HC had at the time said that the CBI must base its preliminary probe on Patils complaint and register an FIR if it felt that an offence was committedIn its plea in the HC the state government has said that Patils complaint and petition did not deal with Waze or any police transfers The central agency thus could not have included those in its FIR it saidThe plea said that the CBIs FIR had travelled beyond the limits permitted by the High Court It said that the CBI had demonstrated its intention to carry out fishing and a roving inquiry into the administration of the state governmentThe CBI has done so in order to try and find out some material enabling political groups that are presently not in power in the Petitioner State to try and destabilise the present government the plea submittedThe government said that it did not intend to interfere with CBIs investigation but only wanted such portions deleted that did not confirm with the HCs orderTransfer of officials and reinstatement of Waze fell within the administrative domain of the state the petition said Issues pertaining to transfer and posting of officials cannot form a part of the investigation in the FIR it contendedNone of the impugned paragraphs objected to by us disclose any cognizable offence contemplated by Section 120B criminal conspiracy of the Indian Penal Code and Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act public servant taking gratification other than legal remuneration in respect of an official act of the Prevention of Corruption Act the petition readsThe state has sought that in the interim the HC restrain the CBI from acting in furtherance of the two paragraphs in the FIR that it has objected to The HC is yet to assign a date for hearing the pleaDeshmukh had resigned after the HC ordered a CBI probe against him into allegations of corruption and misconduct levelled by Singh Deshmukhs party the NCP is a key ally in the Shiv Senaled government in which the Congress is also a partnerThis 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