Mumbai: Mumbai Police Crime Branch on Saturday filed charge sheet against Param Bir Singh, former city police commissioner and three others in an extortion case. The charge sheet ran into more than 100 pages and was filed before Andheri court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate S. B. Bhajipale.
It also named suspended police officers Sachin Vaze, Sumit Singh and Alpesh Patel under various sections of Indian Penal Code and CrPC. The FIR was registered under IPC sections 384 and 385 (both pertaining to extortion) and 34 (common intention) against six accused in the case.
The complaint had been lodged by Bimal Agarwal, who alleged the accused extorted Rs 9 lakh from him for not conducting a raid on two bars and restaurants, which he ran in partnership, and also forced him to buy two smartphones worth around Rs 2.92 lakh for them. The offences were committed between January 2020 and March 2021, police earlier said.
