Mumbai: Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh on Sunday confirmed that the letter to Maharashtra CM was sent from his email ID.
The confirmation comes after Maharashtra CM's office raised doubts over the letter. The CMO said that the letter was received from a different email address, not his official one and was without Singh's signature.
The Chief Minister's office also said that the new email address needs to be checked for which Home Ministry was attempting to contact Singh.
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Meanwhile, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has denied the charges and said that he is filing a defamation suit against former Mumbai Police Commissioner for his allegation of "malpractices".
Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh wrote to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray alleging that Home Minister Anil Deshmukh had indulged in "malpractices" and asked suspended API Sachin Waze to collect Rs 100 crore every month.
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The allegations were made a day after Deshmukh had said that Param Bir Singh was moved out as Mumbai Police Commissioner so that cases pertaining to Waze were probed without obstruction.
