‘I quit over BMC loss, not HC order’
Facing the ire of party workers after the Congress’ humiliating defeat in the BMC election as well as an FIR lodged for possessing assets disproportionate to his income, embattled Mumbai Congress president Kripashankar Singh resigned from his post on Wednesday.
His resignation has been accepted.
However, the Congress has maintained that the loss in the civic polls was the primary reason for Mr Singh’s resignation, and not the fact that the Bombay high court on Wednesday asked the Mumbai police to register the case against him.
The HC was hearing a petition filed by one Sanjay Tiwari against Mr Singh, his wife Maltidevi, daughter, son, son-in-law and daughter-in-law, and said that the certified photostat copy of the petition should be treated as an FIR filed before the commissioner of police.
The division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Roshan Dalvi also directed the police to seize both movable and immovable properties of Mr Singh and his relatives.
The police has also been directed to probe Mr Singh’s properties mentioned in an initial report submitted to the high court by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, thereby rejecting the clean chit that the ACB had given Mr Singh.
The court has directed police commissioner Arup Patnaik to head the investigation and to collect all documentary evidence regarding the movable and immovable properties shown against the names of being flats, shops, agricultural lands, bungalow, office/commercial premises, motor cars, bank accounts, forward trading account, etc from Mr Singh and his relatives.
Meanwhile, confirming Mr Singh’s resignation, senior Congress leader and the AICC’s state in-charge Mohan Prakash said Mr Singh had actually sent his letter of resignation last itself after the party’s drubbing in the civic elections.
The AICC had already hinted that Mr Singh could be on his way out in the wake of the defeat of the Congress-NCP alliance at the hands of the Shiv Sena-BJP-RPI combine in the Mumbai municipal corporation polls.
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