Param Bir Singh, former Mumbai police CP, who was recently transferred from the top post has alleged that Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh had asked Sachin Vaze, the suspended police officer to collect Rs 100 crore for him every month.

In an unsigned letter written to the Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, PB Singh made these allegations.

Param Bir Singh claimed in his letter, “Sachin Vaze, who was heading the Crime Intelligence Unit of the Crime Branch of the Mumbai Police, was called by Shri Anil Deshmukh, Hon’ble Home Minister, Maharashtra to his official residence Dyaneshwar several times in last few months and repeatedly instructed to assist in collection of funds for the Hon’ble Home Minister.”

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In the letter, the former Mumbai police CP, P B Singh further alleged that for achieving this target of Rs 100 crore per month, Anil Deshmukh told Sachin Vaze, “there are about 1,750 bars, restaurants and other establishments in Mumbai and if a sum of Rs 2-3 lakh each was collected from each of them, a monthly collection of Rs 40-50 crores was achievable.”