Param Bir Singh to be declared 'Absconder' in 30 days if no response; Court passes order

A big step has been taken towards bringing Param Bir Singh to justice as a Mumbai court on Wednesday has accepted the Proclamation application filed by the Crime Branch of the Police which sought to declare the former Mumbai Police Commissioner as an 'absconder'. 

As per sources, hard copies of the proclamation order passed by the Mumbai Court will now be pasted on all of Param Bir Singh’s properties, including that in Mumbai and Chandigarh, after which the agency will wait for 30 days. If the former Police Commissioner fails to show up in the 30 days, he will be formally declared as an 'absconder'. If he is declared an 'absconder', his properties may be seized and subsequently auctioned and he would not be able to avail legal remedies, top lawyers told Republic.

Maharashtra govt initiates process to suspend Param Bir Singh

Speaking with Republic's Editor-In-Chief Arnab Goswami, Maharashtra Special Public Prosecutor Shekhar Jagtap had said, "As far as crimes of Param Bir Singh are concerned, they are based on the FIRs against him. In this particular case that was registered against him Goregaon Police Station where there is an accusation of extortion made by Shyam Sunder Agarwal in 21 July 2021 against whom Param Bir and his alleged close business associate Sanjay Punamiya had hatched a criminal conspiracy by extorting crores of Rupees. At the behest of Param Bir Singh, Shyam Sunder was prosecuted by Sanjay Punamiya under strange provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, even though there was no evidence against him. Sanjay Punamiya was under our interrogation for 14 days and he was also traced in other criminal cases against him registered in Thane, and other cases in Mumbai. Param Bir is also facing charges of extortion in several other cases."

In this FIR filed at the Goregaon Police Station Sections 34, 120B, 201, 384, 385, 388 and 389 of the Indian Penal Code have been levelled. 

Besides this case, there are four other extortion cases filed against the former Police Commissioner, keeping in view which the Maharashtra government  initiated the process to suspend Param Bir Singh. The former Mumbai Commissioner of Police, Param Bir Singh has not showed up in the past six months after being appointed to the office of the DG of Maharashtra Home Guard. Param Bir Singh went missing in the face of multiple extortion cases filed against him.