GoaChronicle.com speaks to a former civil servant of the Ministry of Home Affairs RV Subramani who shockingly revealed that a corporate group had set aside Rs 500 crore for the appointment of Commissioner of Police in Mumbai.
GC: Should the Mumbai Police Commissioner Parambir Singh resign over the failure of the Mumbai Police to sincerely investigate the death of Sushant Singh Rajput and Disha Salian in light of the Supreme Court ordering a CBI probe?
RVS: Actually it is not a case just failure of the Mumbai police. They were intentionally botching up. In the SC order itself they have indicted that the investigation of the Mumbai police does not give confidence to public at large.
Further the deeper you go it will be evident that Mumbai police including the commissioner who was as per my sources personally overseeing and guiding the investigative team at every steps smacks of a conspiracy.Hence his continuation as Commissioner of Police even after CBI take over is fraught with many challenges to the CBI team.
Instead of waiting for him resign he should be sent immediately on leave. Later Government of India MHA which is the disciplinary authority should commence appropriate action for his removal of dismissal. Also if his involvement in destruction of evidence which is an offence under Section 201 then appropriate action to arrest including the sanction for arrest and prosecution should be immediately commenced by MHA
GC: In a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah in 2019 you raised concerns over a Mumbai Police Commissioner. Central investigation agencies are investigating the links of a member of the current Mumbai Police Commissioner’s family in a multi-crore corporate scam. What information can you share on Parambir Singh as a former civil servant of the MHA?
RVS: Indeed long before Parambir Singh’s appointment as Mumbai CP, I was confronted by a certain stranger while coming out of a temple. The area around the temple in Sarojini Nagar, New Delhi is under redevelopment and there are quite a few dark spots. I was told not to help a lawyer on certain points in Sadhvi Pragya’s case.
I was politely told that a particular corporate group has Rs. 500 crores for appointment of a Commissioner of Police of Mumbai. My sharing the loopholes will jeopardise the appointment.
I had heard of corporate sponsored postings but first time been confronted with one. I shared my experience with my friend who suggested that I should keep the Union Home Minister informed. Accordingly I had written to Union Home Minister Mr Amit Shah on 12.6.2019.
Later MHA officials met me for further information. But this appointment is done by Government of Maharasthra. After the new dispensation formed the Government the present Mumbai Police Commissioner immediately appointed removing the then incumbent Mr. Barve.
Later I also got to know from the same friend that the present Police Commissioner’s wife was a Director in the corporate house which had come in reference of the stranger who told me to not to help Sadhvi’s lawyer.
GC: In your job profile in MHA you would have come across numerous cases of Bollywood nexus with the terrorists and underworld? What according to you is the real picture of Bollywood and Underworld nexus and what role do you think its plays in the Sushant Singh Rajput case?
RVS: Bollywood nexus in many cases have been in public knowledge. We all know Rahul Bhatt got away inspite of accompanying David Headlley when he was doing recee of the targets for 26/11 attacks. At that time also when a letter written by Mahesh Bhatt to P. Chidambaram, then Home Minister had been received at my desk travelling down the hierarchy I had submitted back with the suggestion that in case Rahul Bhatt was innocent he can always suo moto go to any Migistrate with the help of a lawyer get his statement recorded. Enabling provisions are there in the Cr. P. C . A good lawyer would be of assistance. But the paper never came back from Minister’s office.
Similarly we had Sanjay Dutt who got away with Arms Act Charge in the 1993 blast case. Footprints of bollywood could also be found if one is willing to go through the case records of Saquib Nachan case or Atif Mullah conviction case for Ghatkopar or Mulund Blasts of 2003. We had Bharat Shah a film financier involved in terror funding but those days laws being less comprehensive he got away with laundering charge in which i doubt whether he was convicted.N. N. Vohra Report had also references but what is found in public domain is a truncated one which the structure of the report indicates.
Fake currency which is the life line for funding terror also had a conviction in 2012 and there are many reports and inputs which used to come not only of Bollywood but the organised crime syndicates of Bollywood, Cricket fixers and sattabaazis, hawaladaars and terror groups. Look due to some political intervention the Marlon Samuels fixing case vanished in thin air from CP Nagpur.
GC: Your book the Myth of Hindu Terror focused on the current Mumbai Police Commissioner Parambir Singh and his role in the investigations of Sadhvi Pragya and others. Can you share your views briefly?
RVS: Part of this I have answered in my first reply. Parmabir Singh was the successor of Hemant Karkare. We all know that he had overseen the torture of Sadhvi Pragya, and her friends and Col Purohit. Physical Torture. Actually I have also said that the appropriate sanctions for arrest of a serving Army Officer could not have been taken with the time frame which is shown.
They did get a Sanction for Prosecution under the extant UAPA 2004 on 15.1.2009 to beat the 90 day deadline otherwise they would have had to take the order under new provisions of UAPA 2008 which was amended and notified in December 2008. Under this new provision the evidence is examined by a Committee of experts like retired Judges etc to advice the sanctioning authority which would have made the case difficult for ATS. The order which was used issued as quoted above is also not correct because the Sanction for Prosecution are speaking orders and this order engineered by Parambir Singh and signed by Chitkala Zutshi is a one line order. That is the reason the stranger met to suggest that I desist from assist anyone in Sadhvi Pragya’s case.
Let me make it very clear that these advocates approached me for consultation on their own after reading my book. I did not go chasing anyone.
Furthermore one of the person arrested in the false cases of Hindu terror was transported from Bhopal to Mumbai in a private aircraft belonging to the same Corporate of which Parambir’s wife is a Director. Hence the conspiracy could be deeper.
