Summary:
Mumbai, Jan 21 (PTI) Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh on Friday told an inquiry commission that he had received several complaints after now dismissed assistant inspector Sachin Waze was appointed as head of Mumbai police"s Crime Intelligence Unit.
Deshmukh is currently deposing before Justice K U Chandiwal Commission, which is probing corruption allegations leveled against him by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh.
The NCP leader is being cross examined by Waze.
Responding to a query, Deshmukh said, "I received some complaints as Waze was under suspension for about 14-15 years and after his reinstatement, he was appointed as Head, CIU.
Generally, if a suspended officer is reinstated, he is posted to a side branch." Deshmukh told the commission several complaints were oral and he cannot name those who had made these, adding that the (Home) department may have received written complaints as well.
"Sachin Waze was posted in Crime Branch and, on the oral direction of then police commissioner Param Bir Singh, he was appointed as chief of CIU," he said, adding that then Joint Commissioner of Police Santosh Rastogi took objection to Waze"s posting as CIU head.