The Mumbai Police on Thursday booked the city's former top cop Param Bir Singh for extortion, cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy after a complaint from a builder. The complainant has claimed that Singh demanded ₹15 crore from him through a DCP-rank police officer and four other cops. Param Bir Singh, the former Mumbai Police commissioner was booked under the Atrocities Act case in April this year on the complaint of a serving police inspector from Akola. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is conducting a probe into the money laundering case related to the alleged multi-crore bribery-cum-extortion racket. He recently moved the Supreme Court seeking protection from any coercive action in the money laundering case.

Source: Hindustan Times July 22, 2021 06:56 UTC