Second non-bailable warrant against former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh
MUMBAI: The 37th metropolitan magistrate S B Bhajipale on Saturday issued a non-bailable warrant against IPS officer Param Bir Singh and two other accused — Vinay Singh and Chhota Shakeel aide Riyaz Bhatti — in a case of alleged extortion where the accused threatened a hotelier and extorted money from him. The court also dismissed API Sachin Waze’s application seeking stay on production of a warrant against him.
This is the second non bailable warrant being issued against Param Bir Singh. Three summons were issued but the trio failed to present themselves before the crime branch.
Bhatti, who has criminal cases against him, had gone underground after the sessions court rejected his anticipatory bail last month. Earlier he was caught by the city police for procuring on a forged passport and using it to travel. The non-bailable warrant will pave the way to declare him an ‘absconder’.
The court also rejected Waze’s application to stay the production warrant against him. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had on Thursday granted permission to the city crime branch to take Waze’s custody in the case of alleged extortion. Waze, who was arrested in planting of gelatine sticks and Mansukh Hiran’s murder case, last month underwent heart bypass surgery and now the medical team report had given them the green signal to take his custody from Taloja jail.
The case pertains to businessman Bimal Agarwal’s complaint that Waze, at Singh’s behest, extorted Rs 9 lakh from him for not conducting raids on his two restaurants and bars in Goregaon which Agarwal ran in partnership. Agarwalstated that Waze also forcibly extorted two high-end cellphones worth Rs 2.92 lakh from him.
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