The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered three preliminary enquiries against former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh to examine the allegations of corruption and abuse of official position.
The move comes about two weeks after the agency, following a Supreme Court directive, took over the probe into five cases registered by the Maharashtra Police against Mr. Singh and others.
Four of the five cases taken over earlier by the CBI are related to charges of extortion, cheating, wrongful confinement, kidnapping for ransom and other offences. One case was registered by the Maharashtra Police under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, Protection of Civil Rights Act, and the Maharashtra Police Act, apart from various provisions of the Indian Penal Code.