Why Anil Deshmukh is in the dock
India TodayOn April 5, the Bombay High Court ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to conduct a primary investigation into the allegations that Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh had asked a couple of top police officials to collect Rs 100 crore per month from the bars and restaurants in Mumbai. Some three hours after the order, Deshmukh put in his papers, becoming the second minister after Sanjay Rathod to quit the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi in a month following charges of illicit practices. A March 17 letter by then Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray alleging that Deshmukh had given the police officers a target of collecting Rs 100 crore every month prompted Patil to lodge the complaint. The allegations In his letter to CM Thackeray on March 17, Param Bir Singh had alleged that Deshmukh had called now suspended assistant police inspector Sachin Vaze and assistant commissioner of police Sanjay Patil to his official residence in Mumbai in mid-February.