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    MUMBAI CONFIDENTIAL

    Apr 10, 2021 4 minutes
    By Kiran D. Tare
    PRATIK CHORGE / GETTY IMAGES

    On April 5, Anil Deshmukh of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) became the first home minister of Maharashtra to quit on charges of corruption. Deshmukh stepped down after the Bombay High Court ordered a preliminary inquiry by the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) into former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh’s allegation that the home minister had given officers of the Mumbai Police a target of collecting Rs 100 crore per month from some 1,750 bars and restaurants in the city.

    The Bombay HC order came in response to a PIL (public interest litigation) filed by lawyer Jayashree Patil. She had daily on March 18, Deshmukh had said that Singh was removed for leaving “unpardonable gaps in the investigation into the Antilia bomb scare case” (where a Scorpio carrying explosives was found abandoned near the residence of billionaire Mukesh Ambani).

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