Mumbai, Feb 21: Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil today hit out at Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) state unit president Gopinath Munde's allegation over the transfer of former Mumbai Police Commissioner Parvinder Singh Pasricha and said the transfer was done solely on ''administrative grounds''. Talking to reporters here this evening, Mr Patil, while affirming that the government would come out with a ''transparent policy on the transfer of police officials'' soon, asserted that Dr Pasricha's was an administrative issue. It was in accordance with the policy decision that the Mumbai Police Commissioner's post should be held by an additional general of police and since the latter had been promoted to the rank of Director General of Police (DGP) as the chief of state police housing corporation. He refuted Mr Munde's allegations that Dr Pasricha was shunted out of the Mumbai Police Commissionerate since the latter had refused to obey a directive by a top politician to recover Rs 150 crore of a Hawala racketeer. ''If there was such an issue, Dr Pasricha should have brought it to my notice as the head of the home ministry'', Mr Patil said.
Mr Patil refuted Mr Munde's charge that the former Mumbai Commissioner had been pressurised over the issue of transfers and suspension of certain police officers.

The home minister said, ''I have gone through the entire file relating to assistant police inspector Daya Nayak, an encounter specialist of the city police, and had not come across a single proposal to suspend him''.
Reacting to Mr Munde's phone tapping charge Mr Patil citing the debate in the state assembly said that the government had taken a policy decision not to tap the telephones of national leaders.

Bureau Report