New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain the plea of former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh seeking CBI investigation in the alleged corrupt malpractices of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh and asked him to approach the Bombay High Court.
A bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul allowed Singh to withdraw the plea and approach the High Court.
The Bench said that the allegations and counter-allegations between Singh and Deshmukh are “serious” but the case should be heard by the High Court first.
“No doubt the matter is quite serious, it also appears a lot of material in the public domain due to personas falling apart,” the Bench observed while asking senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi appearing for Singh to approach the Bombay High Court.
“There is now another angle to it. The concerned parties were quite hunky-dory for very long. Now having fallen apart, one is making the allegation against the other. It is a serious matter no…
