CBI closes another case against ex-CP Param Bir

The former CP said that all the five cases against him were fabricated

- Abhishek Sharan

In a relief to former Mumbai police commissioner (CP) Param Bir Singh and 32 others, the Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a closure report in a 2022 case based on a complaint lodged by a police inspector.

The CBI said that the allegations of the inspector, B R Ghadge, who worked under Singh when he was Thane CP, “could not be substantiated” and the case was sought to be closed for “want of evidence”.

Among the 33 accused were 17 former and serving police officials and a few law officers and forensic officials. In January 2024, the CBI had submitted a closure report in another case, one of five cases against Singh and others, which it took over from the Kopri police station in Thane on the orders of the Supreme Court.

When contacted, Singh told Hindustan Times, “I only want to say: Satyamev Jayate (Truth alone triumphs)”. The former CP said that all the five cases against him were fabricated and registered at the behest of a former Mumbai police commissioner and some other police officers, and that criminal elements had been contacted to implicate him in the cases.