Maharashtra govt. challenges parts of CBI’s FIR

The Chief Justice had asked the CBI director to conduct a preliminary enquiry into the allegations made by Param Bir Singh, after which an FIR was registered against Anil Deshmukh

The Bombay High Court on Friday was told by the Maharastra government that it was challenging two paragraphs in the First Information Report (FIR) filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against former State Home Minister Anil Deshmukh because it was a matter of the federal rights of the State and that it had all the locus standi to protect its rights. A Division Bench of Justices S.S. Shinde and N.J. Jamadar was hearing a petition filed through the Additional Chief Secretary of the Home Department seeking deletion of two unnumbered paragraphs in the FIR. The paragraphs mention the reinstatement of the suspended assistant police inspector Sachin Vaze and the transfer of some other police officers. Senior counsel Rafique Dada, appearing for the State of Maharashtra, said, “We [the State] were not against the FIR filed by CBI, but have exception against two unnumbered paragraphs which refer to Sachin Vaze being reinstated and that of the alleged interference in the transfers and postings of policemen.”