Mumbai: The former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh accused the Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh of corruption and interference in police work. He wrote a letter to the Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday and he explained how the Home Minister misused his powers to get monitory benefits to him through his policemen.

In his letter Param Bir said the Minister had appointed several of his officers including Sachin Waze who has been arrested in the Mukesh Ambani case for running an extortion racket.

Home Minister had asked several of his officers to collect money from restaurants, pubs, bars and hookah parlours, setting them a target of ₹ 100 crore every month as recently as February this year, he said. He also said that the Home Minister had on several occasions instructed police officers on how to handle cases and file charges, often summoning them to his home to “bypass” him and other seniors.

In his letter he wrote how at one of the briefings at Thackeray’s home following the Mukesh Ambani incident in mid-March, he had “pointed out several misdeeds and malpractices being indulged into by the Hon’ble Home Minister”.

“I have similarly briefed the Hon’ble Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, NCP President Sharad Pawar and other senior Ministers also about the misdeeds and malpractices. On my briefings, I noticed that some of the Ministers were already aware about some aspects mentioned by me,” he said.