Days after sacked cop Sachin Waze allegedly told the Enforcement Directorate that Anil Deshmukh was his ‘No.1’, the former home minister’s lawyer, Kamlesh Ghumre, said on Wednesday that ‘No. 1’ had to be Mumbai’s police chief. He said one does not know what one is saying before the agency but in local parlance, if a policeman is saying ‘No.1’ then he is referring to the chief of his force.

Ghumre made the claims as he addressed the press on Deshmukh and his family being summoned by the Enforcement Directorate, which has registered a money laundering case after CBI’s FIR based on the high court’s directions.