Extortion Case: Lookout Notice issued against Param Bir Singh in Thane

TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ A lookout notice against senior Maharashtra IPS officer Param Bir Singh in connection with an extortion case has been issued by Thane police. A lookout notice is issued to prevent a person from leaving the country.

The notice was issued in the extortion case registered at the Thane Nagar Police Station against Singh, a former Mumbai Police Commissioner, and 27 others on July 30 on a complaint of businessman Ketan Tanna.

Besides Singh, who earlier served as the Thane Police Commissioner, the extortion FIR names several other police officers. These include the then Deputy Commissioner of Police Dipak Deoraj, Assistant Commissioner of Police Nivrurti Kadam, the then Anti Extortion Cell (AEC) senior Inspector Pradeep Sharma and Inspector Rajkumar Kothmire, the official said.

In his complaint, Tanna has alleged that when Singh was the Thane Police Commissioner between January 2018 and February 2019, the accused extorted Rs 1.25 crore from him by summoning him to the AEC office and threatening to frame him up in serious criminal cases.