According to reports suspended police inspector Anup Dange in a letter to additional chief secretary, home, has sought an inquiry into former police commissioner Param Bir Singh’s links with ‘underworld’.
Dange has alleged that a person claiming to be Singh’s relative demanded Rs 2 crore to reinstate him. Singh rubbished the allegations, but declined to elaborate saying the matter is pending in HC. Dange, in his eight-page letter dated February 2, also requested that the departmental probe against Singh be assigned to a senior IAS officer.
Dange was suspended for allegedly naming a person in an FIR without sufficient grounds. In November 2019, Dange said he went to check pubs operating in Akruti building at Breach Candy when a pub owner tried to pressurise him to operate beyond the stipulated deadline, claiming he had connections with Param Bir Singh who was then DG state ACB.
Later, a scuffle broke out outside the pub and the grandson of film producer Bharat Shah was arrested for allegedly assaulting a cop. The pub-bar owner was also named in the FIR. Dange was suspended on July 18, 2020.
The suspended police officer alleged that a person claiming to be a cousin of Singh got in touch with him. He later agreed to bring down the amount to Rs 1 crore on behalf of Singh.
