The Maharashtra authorities has initiated the method to droop former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh and one other police officer after they had been named as accused in extortion instances, an official mentioned on Saturday.
The method started after a proposal was despatched by the Director Common of Police (DGP) to the state house division a number of days in the past, he mentioned.
In September, DGP Sanjay Pandey had despatched a proposal to droop Singh and different police officers named in alleged extortion instances, however the house division sought particular details about the position of every accused officer.
The DGP`s workplace despatched a recent proposal this week, the house division official mentioned.
The division is contemplating the suspension of Param Bir Singh and a Deputy Commissioner of Police-rank officer who is known as in these instances, however not others, he added.
On Wednesday, a Justice of the Peace`s courtroom issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW) towards Singh in an extortion case registered at Marine Drive police station right here by actual property developer Shyamsunder Agrawal.
It was the third NBW issued towards Singh. Earlier courts had issued warrants in instances of extortion registered at Goregaon in Mumbai and in neighbouring Thane towards him.
The IPS officer was shunted out from the submit of Mumbai police commissioner in March this yr after assistant police inspector Sachin Waze (now dismissed) was arrested within the case of the SUV with explosives discovered close to industrialist Mukesh Ambani`s south Mumbai home, and subsequent dying of businessman Mansukh Hiran.
Singh subsequently accused then state house minister Anil Deshmukh of asking police officers to gather Rs 100 crore a month from bars and eating places in Mumbai.
Deshmukh, who denied the allegation, stepped down as minister and is dealing with CBI probe.
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