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THE \u201cLETTER BOMB\u201d by Mumbai Police Commissioner, Param Bir Singh, days after he was shown the door, alleging that state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh used to call Sachin Waze and other cops to his official residence and give them a \u2018target\u2019 of Rs100 crore per month, has created a crisis of credibility for the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress Government in Maharashtra. The letter had alleged that the State Home Minister had asked cops to collect this money from bars, restaurants and other establishments.
\nThe murky developments in Maharashtra began with the recovery of an explosives-laden SUV near industrialist Mukesh Ambani\u2019s residence on February 25. Hearing the plea filed by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, the Supreme Court directed him to approach the Bombay High Court under Article 226 to seek a CBI probe observing that the matter is \u2018quite serious\u2019 and affects the administration at large.
\nThe National Investigation Agency is already investigating this case after 20 loose gelatin sticks were found in the abandoned SUV.
\nThe conduct of the former Police Chief is also not beyond suspicion as he raised voice only after he was shunted out of the post.
\nWhy was controversial assistant police inspector Sachin Vaze, who had been suspended earlier in an alleged custodial death case, suddenly reinstated and given an important post?
\nWhy are collision partners not speaking up in such a serious matter?
\nIn the meanwhile Shiv Sena mouthpiece, Saamna in an editorial has alleged that the BJP was using former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh to topple the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi regime in Maharashtra warning that any attempt to bring down the MVA government would trigger \u201cfire\u201d.
\nIt has alleged that decks were being cleared for the President\u2019s rule by creating an impression that the law and order machinery had failed in the state. New pawns are being created and a former Police chief is being used in an attempt to bring down the duly elected government of Uddhav Thackeray. Saamna editorial alleged that there could be a link between Singh\u2019s letter bomb and the game plan to destabilize the State government.
\nIt chided the former police chief for leveling allegations against the home minister and posting these to the media because these are \u201cnot within the rules\u201d for a police official to put the government in the dock.
\nIronically, the same Thackeray government had praised the former Police Chief as a hands-on officer who had dexterously handled the Sushant Singh Rajput case and the Kangana Ranaut row fairly well. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S.Eliot had once rightly said, \u201cUnreal friendship may turn to real but real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended\u201d. It is time for the government to address the nexus of politics, police and crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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