Uddhav Thackeray signs order suspending ex-Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh

Officials in the state home department said while a former order is expected soon.

Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday signed the order on suspension of former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh.

The 1988-batch IPS officer was removed from the post of Mumbai police chief on March 17 following the bomb scare case at Antilia.  (File photo)

Officials in the state home department said while a former order is expected soon, the action is being taken under All India Service Rules following recommendation by a panel led by senior IAS officer and acting chief secretary Debashish Chakrabarty.

The 1988-batch IPS officer was removed from the post of Mumbai police chief on March 17 following the bomb scare case at Antilia. He was then made the general commander of Maharashtra state home guard after he levelled corruption allegations against former state home minister Anil Deshmukh.

On November 29, a report in Hindustan Times stated that the Maharashtra government has accepted the report of the Debashish Chakraborty committee on the departmental inquiry against Param Bir Singh. The committee found Singh responsible for dereliction of duty in the Antilia bomb scare case.

In October, Chakraborty submitted a report holding Singh responsible for violating the All India Civil Services Rules. According to the committee, there were serious lapses in the handling of the Antilia case. The then Mumbai police commissioner was also accused of shielding officers such as Sachin Waze.

Singh, who was recently declared an 'offender' by the local magistrate's court, arrived in Mumbai in November and joined the police investigation in an alleged extortion case registered against him.

Singh has been granted interim protection against arrest until December 6 by the Supreme Court.