The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has detained former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, two of his associates and sacked police officer Sachin Waje in a corruption case. NCP leader Deshmukh (71) and his aides Sanjeev Palande and Kundan Shinde are currently lodged in Arthur Road Jail in judicial custody in connection with a money laundering case being carried out by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The CBI had filed an application before Additional Sessions Judge DP Singhade for his custody.
The CBI had also sought the custody of Sachin Waje. Waje was arrested by the National Investigation Agency in March 2021 in the Antilia blast case. Following which Judge DP Singhade sent a similar request letter to the special NIA court.
Waje is currently in judicial custody at Navi Mumbai’s Taloja Jail. The special PMLA and NIA courts in separate orders on Friday directed the superintendents of the respective jails to hand over the custody of the four accused Deshmukh, Palande, Shinde and Veje to the CBI. A Mumbai court on Thursday accepted the CBI’s plea seeking remand of former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in its custody to probe the corruption case registered against him and others.
Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Parambir Singh had alleged in March last year that the then Home Minister Deshmukh had given a target to police officials to extort Rs 100 crore per month from restaurants and bars in the city. Following the order of the Bombay High Court, the CBI had registered an FIR against Deshmukh.