Home Minister Anil Deshmukh (left) and former Mumbai CP Param Bir Singh (right)

Former Mumbai Commissioner of Police Param Bir Singh on Monday (March 22) filed a petition before the Supreme Court against his transfer to the Home Guard Department by Maharashtra Government and also demanded a probe by the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) into the alleged malpractices by Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.

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Singh, in this petition, has said that his transfer was arbitrary and illegal? and was done without completion of the minimum fixed tenure of two years. The petition read: The said transfer was maliciously effected purportedly under Section 22 N (2) of the Maharashtra Police Act, 1951 with the reason that the transfer was necessitated by administrative exigencies. It is settled law that the orders have to stand on the reasons contained in the same and no reasons can be supplemented later.

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Singh was transferred last week from the post of Mumbai Police Commissioner. Home Minister Deshmukh said that Singh was transferred as some serious lapses surfaced in the police probe in the Ambani bomb scare case. However, Singh hit back at the Deshmukh through a letter to Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray. Singh alleged in the letter that Deshmukh asked arrested cop Sachin Waze to extort Rs 100 crore every month from various establishments in Mumbai. Deshmukh had denied Singh’s allegations while saying that Singh made the allegations to save himself as Wazes role became clear in Ambani bomb scare and Mansukh Hirans murder case.