Maha govt, Mumbai Police not cooperating, threatening officers: CBI to Bombay HC

Mumbai, Aug 6: In a huge development, the CBI team investigating the involvement of former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in the corruption case has approached the Bombay High Court alleging no co-operation is coming from the Maharashtra government.

 

The CBI in its plea also informed that a Mumbai ACP threatening the CBI officers investigating the case. CBI counsel Anil Singh informed a division bench of Justices S S Shinde and N J Jamadar that some of agency officers were "threatened by an assistant commissioner of police".

 

 

Taking cognizance of the complaint, the Bench issued a notice to the Maharashtra government and listed the matter for hearing on August 11. "We are issuing notice to the government. Some ACP is threatening the CBI officers. Find out what the situation is. Please do not create an unfair situation that we have to take them (police) to task," ordered the bench.

 

 

The court also directed the CBI to add the Additional Chief Secretary (Home Department) of the state as a respondent to the application. "Please ensure that the directions given by this court and the order passed earlier are followed in letter and spirit," the Bench informed the state government.

 

 

On 22 July, the High Court had held that the central agency can inquire into the allegations of corruption in transfers and postings of police personnel and dismissed a petition filed by the state government, seeking that some parts of CBI FIR against Deshmukh be quashed.