Crime Branch officials had questioned him in connection with the extortion case registered against him.
Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, who was declared an absconder by a court, arrived in the city on Thursday and was questioned by Crime Branch officials in an extortion case registered against him.
Mr. Singh, who flew here from ChandigarhReached the office of Unit 11 of Mumbai Police’s crime branch in Kandivali after 11 am. He left after seven hours at around 6.15 pm. The IPS officer, who is still the Director General of Home Guards in Maharashtra, arrived in an official car and left.
“He cooperated with the investigation and answered all our questions,” he said. We have issued him a notice asking him to appear again whenever necessary,” said a senior official.
Builder-hotel businessman Bimal Agarwal had filed a case at the suburban Goregaon police station accusing Mr. Singh and some other police officers of extorting extortion from them by threatening to implicate them in false cases.
Mr Singh is facing a total of five extortion cases in Maharashtra. As there was no response to the summons issued to him, a court here earlier this month declared the IPS officer a “proclaimed offender”.
Mr Singh had told news channels on Wednesday that he was in Chandigarh after disappearing from the public eye in May this year. He has not reported for work since May following his transfer from the post of Mumbai Police Commissioner and allegations of corruption against then Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.
Mr Singh was ousted after police officer Sachin Vaze was arrested in connection with an SUV parked near the house of industrialist Mukesh Ambani and later in connection with the suspicious death of businessman Mansukh Hiran. The Supreme Court had granted him protection from arrest a few days back.
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