Did Mumbai Ex-Top Cop Flee To Russia? Minister Says "We're Searching"

Param Bir Singh is being investigated in the bomb scare at Mukesh Ambani's home earlier this year.

Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, who is being investigated in connection with the bomb scare near the home of India's richest man Mukesh Ambani earlier this year and a series of extortion cases, is missing, Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil has said.

"Along with the Union Home Ministry, we're also searching for his whereabouts. I've heard something like that but as a government officer, he can't go abroad without government clearance," Mr Patil said, according to news agency ANI, on reports of Mr Singh fleeing to Russia.

"We've issued a Lookout Circular and if he went away, then it is not good," he added.

On February 25 this year, an SUV with gelatin sticks was found at Carmichael Road, near the residence of Mukesh Ambani. The car belonged to Mansukh Hiren whose body was later found in the Kalwa creek in Thane.