MUMBAI: The CBI has registered 5 separate FIRs in opposition to former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh and others consistent with a Supreme Court docket order directing the premier investigating company to take over the probe into allegations in opposition to the previous prime cop.
All 5 circumstances have been earlier registered by Mumbai police. Final month, the Supreme Court docket directed the Maharashtra authorities handy them over to the CBI. Deputy commissioner of police Parag Manere is known as as an accused in a few of these circumstances.

Whereas transferring the case to CBI primarily based on an enchantment filed by Param Bir Singh, the Supreme Court docket had mentioned mentioned that nobody concerned within the controversy was "washed with milk" and a probe by an impartial company was wanted to seek out whether or not there was a "ring of reality" within the complaints made in opposition to Singh or was it mere retaliation in opposition to him for "elevating purple flag" when he wrote a letter to the chief minister accusing the house minister of corruption.The 5 FIRs have been registered in opposition to Singh after he wrote to the CM accusing former state dwelling minister Anil Deshmukh of ordering now dismissed police officer Sachin Waze to gather Rs 100 crore from orchestra bar house owners within the metropolis each month as safety cash for him.
In 4 of the 5 circumstances registered by the CBI, Singh has been booked for extortion. His fellow accused in these circumstances are cops.
Former IPS officer-turned lawyer Y P Singh, who has additionally served in CBI, mentioned, "these are technical formalities to provoke the investigation. CBI FIRs are reproduction of the unique police case when such circumstances are transferred from state to them."
The others accused in 4 of the circumstances are DCPs Parag Manere and Akbar Pathan, cops Asha Kokare , Nandkumar Gopale, Pradeep Sharma, Rajkumar Kothmire and Sachin Waze. These officers are both suspended, dismissed, retired or in jail custody. A lot of them had a controversial previous even whereas they have been in service.
Amongst different accused booked within the 4 extortion circumstances are gangsters Ravi Poojari and Riyaz Bhati, and Sanjay Punamiya. The fifth case is registered beneath the Prevention of Atrocities act, through which Singh is an accused together with 24 others, most of them serving cops.