ED summons Mumbai ex-top cop Param Bir Singh in PMLA case

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 9

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned former Mumbai top cop Param Bir Singh in a money laundering case against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, officials said on Friday.

The ED said it expected to question Singh and record his statement soon.

Singh has sought some time to depose apparently owing to some health issue.

Officials said the summons were issued to Singh sometime ago as part of the agency’s investigation into the case involving him and Deshmukh.

Singh, a 1988-batch IPS officer, is currently the Director General of Maharashtra Police Home Guards unit. He was removed as the Mumbai Commissioner of Police after multiple investigations were launched into an instance of security scare that was reported from near the house of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani in Mumbai.