Param Bir Singh: From being Mumbai police chief to being declared ‘absconding’
The Hindu
IPS officer has handled a number of high-profile cases
Param Bir Singh, on November 17 in an , is a 1988-batch IPS officer who took over as Police Commissioner of Mumbai from Sanjay Barve in February 2020. He was transferred as Director General of Maharashtra Home Guard in March 2021.
Mr. Singh entered the limelight over the arrest of BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur and Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit, the two main accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blasts case. He was then the Additional Commissioner of the Anti-Terrorism Squad.
As Thane Commissioner, he busted a major fake international call centre racket and a fake SIM card scam. In 2018, he arrested five accused in the Bhima Koregoan caste violence case in Pune. He was also the Commissioner of the Mumbai police when actor Sushant Singh Rajput died in June 2020.
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