<span style="color: #222222;">Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh today told the Supreme Court that he is ready to appear before the Central Bureau of Investigation within the next 48 hours to join the ongoing probe into the extortion allegations made by him against the state's former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.<br />''<br />''After hearing his submission, the top court granted interim protection from arrest to Singh and directed him to join the CBI investigation at the earliest.<br />''<br />''Through his advocate, Param Bir Singh told the Supreme Court that he has been hiding as he faces a grave threat to his life and attempts are being made by the State Government to engage him in false cases. He said, he is in the country and not absconding.</span><br />