CBI Team To Reach Mumbai Today To Start Probe Against Anil Deshmukh

In its 52-page judgement, the bench said Mr Singh's allegations against Mr Deshmukh had put at stake the citizen's faith in the state police.

A CBI team will reach Mumbai on Tuesday to start the process of initiating a preliminary enquiry against former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh who resigned after the Bombay High Court directed the agency to probe allegations of corruption levelled against him by former Mumbai Police commissioner Param Bir Singh. Normally, the agency waits for a formal order and a legal opinion before initiating any action in such cases but given the short period of 15 days granted by the high court to conduct a preliminary enquiry into the allegations, the CBI has taken the swift action, officials said. The CBI team will meet lawyers to collect the order, complaint along with annexure and other related documents to start the probe, they said.   A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni on Monday said this was an "extraordinary" and "unprecedented" case that warranted an independent inquiry.