CBI Can Probe Into Mumbai Cop Sachin Waze's Reinstatement: High Court

A division bench of Justices S S Shinde and N J Jamadar noted that it was the duty of the Commissioner of Police to enforce the law of the land.

The Bombay High Court on Thursday said the CBI can inquire into the transfer and postings of police personnel and the reinstatement of ex-API Sachin Waze in the Mumbai police force "so far as this has a nexus with Maharashtra's former home minister Anil Deshmukh and his associates". A division bench of Justices S S Shinde and N J Jamadar also noted that it was the duty of the Commissioner of Police to enforce the law of the land and he is "not a servant of anyone, but the law itself". The HC, in its judgment, remarked that the allegations of corruption and misconduct levelled by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh against Mr Deshmukh and if the reinstatement of Sachin Waze in 2020 after so many years of suspension had any quid pro quo (a favour/advantage granted in return for something), then it is a matter of investigation. The court dismissed a petition filed by the Maharashtra government seeking that two paragraphs from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) FIR against Mr Deshmukh be set aside.