Days after police raids on hotels in north Mumbai led to accusations of moral policing, Additional Commissioner of Police Fateh Singh Patil, who was in-charge of the area and was probing the incident, has been shunted out and posted in Nanded district of Maharashtra.
The State government, however, said the transfer was not connected to the raids on hotels at Madh Island and Aksa beach, in which nearly 61 people were arrested and booked for “indecency in public” on August 6.
“Fateh Singh Patil has been transferred to Nanded because Nanded required an Inspector-General (IG) for a long time. So we had to downgrade the post of IG to Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) and then we had to find an officer for the post. Patil has been selected for the post,” Additional Chief Secretary (Home) K.P. Bakshi said.
