Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh (left) and former Mumbai CP Parambir Singh

Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh will be filing a defamation suit against former Mumbai Commissioner of Police Param Bir Singh who, on Saturday, accused Deshmukh of asking Sachin Waze to collect Rs 100 crore every month from different establishments. Deshmukh has rubbished Singh’s allegations while saying that the top cop is trying to save himself after Waze’s involvement came to light in Mukesh Ambani and Mansukh Hiren’s case.

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Late evening on Saturday Deshmukh released a statement slamming Param Bir Singh and informed of the defamation suit against Singh. The statement read:

“Ex Mumbai CP, Mr. Parambir Singh’s allegations on me are absolutely false and baseless. He has made these allegations as a pet of a conspiracy to save himself and to malign the image of Maha Vikas Aghadi and me. I would like to bring your attention to following points:

– It’s been a while since Sachin Waze was arrested, why was Mr. Parambir Singh silent about these allegations for so many days

– On 16th March, When he realised that he will be removed from the post of Police Commissioner the next day on 17th, he deliberately asked a few questions to ACP Mr. Patil and got conveniently got expected answers out of it. This was a part of Mr. Parambir Singh’s larger conspiracy. It seems as if he intended to get specific? answers from these chats so that he can term them as ?evidence? later. You can clearly see the desperation of Mr. Singh through these chats. In the chats it is clear that Mr. Singh was leading the conversation to repetitively get particular information from Mr. Patil, why was that?

– In an interview given to Lokmat, I mentioned that Mr. Parambir Singh was removed from the post as a consequence of some serious issues against him came to our notice, so Mr. Singh again tried to create some evidence in the form of WhatsApp conversation on March 19th.

– Everyone in the Police department is very well aware that Sachin Waze and ACP Patil are very close to Mr. Parambir Singh. It was Mr. Singh who reinstated Mr. Waze who was suspended for 16 years.

– All the allegations made by Mr Parambir Singh are false, he should prove them. I’m filing a defamation case against him.

– Mr. Parambir Singh has made these allegations to save himself.

– If Mr. Singh is claiming that Sachin Waze gave him all this information in January then why didn’t he bring this information forward back then? was he silent for so many days

– Mr. Singh has created this conspiracy to deflect the attention from explosives case and Mansukh Hirens death.

– I ask the Chief Minister to conduct an unbiased & fair enquiry of Mr. Singh’s allegations.”