CBI quizzes ex-Maha HM Anil Deshmukh for 8 hours

April 14, 2021 20:35

Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh was on Wednesday questioned for eight hours by the Central Bureau of Investigation conducting the preliminary enquiry on orders of the Bombay high court in connection with the allegations of corruption raised against him by former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh, an official said.

Deshmukh denied the allegations raised against him by Singh during questioning and told the officers that they were an attempt to malign the image of the state government, sources said.

The senior Nationalist Congress Party leader reached the DRDO guest house in suburban Santacruz, where a team of the Central Bureau of Investigation is camping, around 10 am, the official said, adding the questioning ended for the day around 6 pm.

"The ex-home minister was questioned by SP-rank officers for eight hours," he said.

Though his questioning ended at 6 pm, Deshmukh is still inside the DRDO guest house, they said.

It is not clear whether Deshmukh is called by the CBI for another round of questioning on Thursday.

The CBI on Monday issued a notice calling Deshmukh to join the agency's probe into the allegations levelled against him by Singh and suspended police officer Sachin Waze, who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency.

After his removal as Mumbai police commissioner last month, Singh wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray saying Deshmukh had set the target to some police officers, including Waze, to collect Rs 100 crore per month from bars and restaurants.

Deshmukh had denied the allegations.

Waze, an assistant police inspector, is currently investigated by the NIA in connection with the recovery of an explosive-laden SUV found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's residence in south Mumbai on February 25 and the subsequent murder of Mansukh Hiran, the purported owner of that vehicle. -- PTI

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