A court in Mumbai cancelled a non-bailable warrant against Param Bir Singh. (File)
A magistrate court in Mumbai today cancelled a non-bailable warrant (NBW) issued against Mumbai's former police commissioner Param Bir Singh in connection with an extortion case registered at the Marine Drive police station.
The case was registered following a complaint filed by real estate developer Shyamsunder Agrawal on July 22 this year.
The court had earlier this month issued the non-bailable warrant against Mr Singh in connection with the case.
The Maharashtra Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is conducting a probe into the case, had earlier sought a non-bailable warrant against the senior IPS offcer.
On Tuesday, additional chief metropolitan magistrate RM Nerlikar cancelled the non-bailable warrant against Param Bir Singh.
The FIR names Param Bir Singh and seven others, including five police officers.
Mr Agrawal had alleged that based on a "false" case, Param Bir Singh and other police officers extorted money from him at the behest of his former business partner Sanjay Punamia.
Declared "absconding" by a court in Mumbai in an alleged extortion case, Mr Singh surfaced in public last Thursday after six months and appeared before the Mumbai crime branch to record his statement.
The Supreme Court has granted him temporary protection from arrest.
On Friday, Param Bir Singh appeared before Thane police in connection with an extortion case filed against him and some other police officials on the complaint of a local builder.
The IPS officer is facing at least five extortion cases in Maharashtra.
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