A commission which is conducting an inquiry into the violence that took place near the Koregaon Bhima war memorial in Pune district on January 1, 2018, summoned former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh and his fellow IPS officer Rashmi Shukla.

Incidentally, the Maharashtra government, in another case, told the Bombay High Court earlier this week that Singh, now Director-General of Home Guard, was "untraceable". Justice (retired) JN Patel, who heads the inquiry commission, passed the order on an application filed by advocate Ashish Satpute seeking the presence of the two IPS officials.