Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday signed the file on the suspension of IPS officer and former Mumbai Police chief Param Bir Singh.
The file will now be sent to the state home department for further procedures.
The suspension order will be issued by the state home department. Singh, a 1988-batch IPS officer, was removed from the post of Mumbai Police commissioner on March 17 following the Antilia bomb scare case. He was then made the general commander of Maharashtra State Home Guard after he levelled corruption allegations against former state home minister Anil Deshmukh.
DGP Sanjay Pandey had sent a proposal to suspend all those who are involved and named in the FIRs filed in the Param Bir Singh case but it was sent back by the additional chief secretary (Home) Manukumar Shrivastava who wanted specific roles to be defined.
Thereafter, a proposal to suspend Singh and a DCP was moved. It was cleared by Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil many days back but was waiting for a final nod from the CM. The final orders will be issued by Thursday evening.
Singh is facing a slew of FIRs in Mumbai and the satellite towns after the seizure of explosives outside Antilia and the murder of Thane businessman Mansukh Hiren. Senior inspector Pradeep Sharma and assistant police inspector Sachin Waze were arrested in the case and thereafter, Param Bir Singh alleged that the government and Home minister Anil Deshmukh had asked to make a collection of Rs 100 crore.