Anil Deshmukh is dealing with allegations of corruption and misconduct. (File picture)
New Delhi:
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday carried out a search operation on the home of former Maharashtra House Minister Anil Deshmukh, who’s dealing with allegations of corruption and misconduct.
The raids happened at Mr Deshmukh’s dwelling in Nagpur, officers mentioned.
The senior NCP chief had give up his put up after former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh wrote a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, levelling allegations of corruption in opposition to him.
Mr Singh, who was unceremoniously eliminated as Mumbai’s prime cop in March amid a number of investigations linked to a safety scare outdoors the house of Mukesh Ambani, claimed that Mr Deshmukh used to ask law enforcement officials to gather cash from restaurant and bar homeowners of Mumbai. In his letter, Mr Singh had additionally talked about that former assistant inspector Sachin Vaze and ACP Sanjay Patil got a goal to gather Rs 100 crore a month. Mr Deshmukh had denied all allegations.
Following the allegations, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) carried out a preliminary inquiry and registered an FIR in opposition to Anil Deshmukh.
The probe was initiated after a Excessive Courtroom bench, led by Chief Justice Dipankar Datta, in April directed the CBI to provoke a preliminary inquiry in opposition to Mr Deshmukh based mostly on a felony grievance filed at a Mumbai police station.
The Enforcement Directorate additionally registered a cash laundering case in opposition to him and began a probe in the case.
Mr Deshmukh resigned from the state cupboard on April 5 after the Excessive Courtroom order.
“I haven’t got the ethical proper to proceed in workplace after the courtroom order. I’ve determined to give up. Kindly relieve me from my put up,” Mr Deshmukh had mentioned in his resignation letter.
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