Maharashtra govt orders probe into Sachin Waze-Param Bir Singh meeting

The Maharashtra government has ordered a probe into a meeting between dismissed police officer Sachin Waze and IPS officer Param Bir Singh which has caused a flutter as Waze is in judicial custody and both are accused in extortion caseState minister Nawab Malik meanwhile accused Waze and Singh of planning the Antilia bomb threat episode which rocked the state in March this year Waze is in judicial custody and as per the rules he is not supposed to meet anyone I have instructed Mumbai police commissioner Hemant Nagrale to probe the matter state Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil told reportersHe also objected to Singh now Director General of Home Guards who remained absent from duty for over six months before surfacing last week to face probe in multiple cases of extortion using a government vehicle for moving around Singh has not been reporting to work for long and is not supposed to use government vehicle WalsePatil saidThe alleged meeting took place on November 29 in an adjoining room on the second floor of a building housing Singhs office in south Mumbai when he appeared before Justice Chandiwal retired Commission which is operating from the same premises The commission is probing allegations of corruption levelled by Singh against NCP leader and then home minister Anil Deshmukh after the IPS officer was shunted out from the post of Mumbai police commissionerWaze had been brought there for crossexamination Notably Navi Mumbai police commissioner Bipin Kumar Singh said they did not have any information about the meeting The police who escorted Waze were from Navi Mumbai police as he is lodged in Taloja jail Both Waze and Singh are coaccused in an extortion case filed in Goregaon a Mumbai suburbSpeaking to reporters in Pune Nawab Malik alleged that Singh who was then Mumbai police commissioner and Waze planned the Antilia bomb scare episodeAn explosivesladen SUV was found near industrialist Mukesh Ambanis residence Antilia in south Mumbai in February this year A few days later businessman Mansukh Hiran who had claimed that the SUV had been stolen from his possession was found dead in a creek in neighbouring Thane districtParam Bir Singh and Sachin Waze had planned the Antilia bomb threat They had even made a fake passport with the entry and exit stamps of Pakistan for a goon If Mansukh Hiran hadnt been killed or had he surrendered the the duo had planned the fake encounter of the goon showing him as a terrorist Malik claimedSingh and Wazewere briefing the home minister Anil Deshmukh who later resigned and the CM Uddhav Thackeray and based on it the latter were speaking in the legislature Both the officers were misleading the minister Malik claimed Singh was not available for comment on Maliks allegationsParam Bir Singh appeared before the Criminal Investigation Department CID for the second day in a row to record his statement in two extortion cases against him one registered at Marine Drive police station in Mumbai and another at Kopri police station in Thane Singh arrived at the CIDs office in Konkan Bhawan building at Belapur in Navi Mumbai at 310 pm in a private SUV and left after around three and a half hoursAlso Read Corruption allegations Anil Deshmukh appears before inquiry commissionEarlier in the day the IPS officer appeared before a court in Mumbai which canceled a nonbailable warrant issued against him for not appearing in the case registered at the Marine Drive police station in south Mumbai Singh declared absconding by courts in Mumbai and Thane surfaced in public last Thursday after over six monthsThe Supreme Court has granted him temporary protection from arrest The IPS officer is facing at least five extortion cases in MaharashtraThis 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