Key Points:
- On Saturday, the Investing Officer of the case, Mumbai police officer Sachin Vaze, 49, was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for the alleged conspiracy to plant the explosive-laden sports utility vehicle.
- Vaze had walked into the NIA office a little after 11 am and had been questioned for nearly 12 hours.
- The Mumbai Police Monday suspended Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Waze, for the second time in his career.
Mukesh Ambani’s life is supposed to be under threat as recently, on February 25, the case of a car parked outside Ambani’s Antilia that contained 2.5 kgs of Gelatin. On Saturday, the Investing Officer of the case, Mumbai police officer Sachin Vaze, 49, was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for the alleged conspiracy to plant the explosive-laden sports utility vehicle.
Vaze, an assistant police inspector, was placed under arrest minutes before Saturday midnight by an NIA team led by Inspector General (IG) Anil Shukla at the agency’s Mumbai office. Vaze had walked into the NIA office a little after 11 am and had been questioned for nearly 12 hours. The arrest was made at 11.50 pm. On Saturday, he tried to get anticipatory bail from a judge but did not succeed.
“Sachin Vaze is part of the group that planted the explosive laden Scorpio on Carmichael Road (near Antilia) on February 25,” a top NIA official told HT. The officer alleged that Sachin Vaze had confessed to his role in the entire episode but declined to share more details at this stage.
The Mumbai Police Monday suspended Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Waze, for the second time in his career. Waze is also part of an inquiry by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) into the death of businessman Mansukh Hiren, who owned the Mahindra Scorpio car that was found outside Ambani’s south Mumbai residence ‘Antilia’. Hiren was found dead in a creek in the Thane district on 5 March.
Waze has been remanded in NIA custody till 25 March. He has been booked under sections 120 (B) for criminal conspiracy, 286 for negligent conduct with respect to explosive substance, 465 for forgery, 473 for making or possessing counterfeit seal, 506(2) for criminal intimidation and Section 4(a)(b)(I) of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908.
