Bhima-Koregaon probe: Activist seeks sanction to file defamation case against cop

Mumbai | Wednesday | 19th September, 2018

Summary:

Mr Param Bir Singh…, stated that he had ‘conclusive proof’ to link me with some terrorists associated with CPI (M) (which is a banned organisation in India).”He added: “All the allegations made by Mr Param Bir Singh against me are palpably false. (File)Civil rights activist and professor Anand Teltumbde has written to the government, seeking prosecution sanction to initiate criminal defamation proceedings against Maharashtra Police Additional Director General (Law & Order) Param Bir Singh. Teltumbde has written that he was defamed after Singh, in his press conference, referred to him as an accused. The letter which was brandished and read out by Mr Param Bir Singh as apparently a ‘conclusive proof’ are not letters written to me at all. On the same day, they arrested five activists for suspected Maoist links and as part of the probe into Bhima-Koregaon violence..