Atrocities case to not pressurise ex-CP to withdraw grievance in opposition to Anil Deshmukh: Cop to Bombay HC

Inspector Bhimrao Ghadge filed a sworn statement within the Bombay Top Court docket on Thursday, pronouncing his case below the Atrocities Act lodged in opposition to former Mumbai police leader Param Bir Singh used to be to not pressurise him to withdraw his grievance in opposition to ex-Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh.

Ghadge filed the affidavit thru his suggest S B Talekar, opposing Singh’s petition in search of to quash the FIR registered in opposition to the previous Mumbai police commissioner.

The inspector alleged that Singh has defamed the police pressure by means of indulging in corrupt practices all over his complete provider profession. Final week, a holiday bench of the HC posted Singh’s petition for listening to on Might 21.

The Maharashtra executive had then confident the court docket that it could now not arrest Singh until Might 21.

Singh in his petition filed previous this month claimed he used to be being centered by means of the Maharashtra executive with false felony instances as a backlash of a letter he wrote in March this 12 months to Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray, through which he levelled corruption allegations in opposition to Deshmukh.

Ghadge in his affidavit termed Singh’s declare as “imaginary, concocted and fictional”. “I vehemently deny that the grievance used to be lodged by means of me and the FIR used to be registered by means of the police in an try to pressurise the petitioner (Singh) to withdraw the grievance letter dated March 20, 2021 written by means of him to the Leader Minister of Maharashtra,” Ghadge mentioned within the affidavit.

The try to hyperlink the grievance lodged by means of Ghadge with the letter written by means of Singh to the executive minister is baseless, the affidavit mentioned.

Ghadge additionally termed as false Singh’s claims that state Director Common of Police Sanjay Pandey had conveyed to him that instances had been being lodged in opposition to him (Singh) following his corruption grievance in opposition to NCP chief Deshmukh.

“The petitioner can’t fortify his case or discredit the grievance lodged by means of simply alleging malafides in opposition to Anil Deshmukh, former house minister of Maharashtra, or Sanjay Pandey, Director Common of Police of Maharashtra,” the affidavit mentioned.

It additional mentioned Ghadge lodged his first grievance in opposition to Singh in January 2016, however at the moment the case used to be now not probed and therefore, he lodged any other grievance this 12 months.

Ghadge additional claimed that once he refused to observe Singh’s directives in a couple of investigations, the latter implicated him in false and frivolous lawsuits.

“The petitioner (Singh) has now not simplest assassinated my persona however has additionally subjected me to humiliation, indignity and psychological torture by means of falsely implicating me in 5 felony instances simplest as a result of I had refused to obey his unlawful orders and sign up for arms with him in his corrupt practices,” Ghadge mentioned within the affidavit. The FIR used to be in keeping with a grievance filed by means of Ghadge, who’s posted at Akola in Maharashtra.

In his grievance, Ghadge had made a chain of allegations of corruption in opposition to Singh and different officials, within the length when Singh used to be posted with the Thane police. The Akola police had registered a 0 FIR (mode of accommodation FIR in any police station regardless of the offence dedicated in that house or another house) and it used to be later transferred to the Thane police for investigation.

Ghadge, who used to be posted within the Thane Police Commissionerate all over 2015-2018, had alleged that Singh burdened him to drop the names of a few individuals from a case and when he refused to take action, Singhembroiled him in false instances.

The case has been lodged below quite a lot of sections of the Indian Penal Code for felony conspiracy and destruction of proof and sections of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.