A car with explosives was found near Mukesh Ambani’s residence in Mumbai
Bombay:
The arrested Mumbai police officer, Sachin Vaze, was taken to Antilia, the home of India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, as part of the investigation into the case of a car full of explosives found near the home of the president of Reliance Industries.
The National Investigative Agency (NIA) took Vaze to the site on the outskirts of Antilia where the car with explosives was found to reconstruct the sequence of events, sources said.
The NIA took over the case from Mumbai police after allegations surfaced against Vaze that he was linked to the death of a man, Mansukh Hiran, who is believed to be the owner of the van filled with explosives.
Vaze was forced to walk by the NIA near the location where the truck was found, sources said. They made him walk around the area in a shirt and pants first, and then with a kurta and a scarf wrapped around his head in order to reconstruct a possible sequence of events from the day the truck was found outside the 27-story building, how it looks. in CCTV footage, sources have said.
The NIA has alleged that the license plate of the abandoned vehicle was found on a car that Mr. Vaze was using. The agency also claims that a person seen in CCTV footage near Antilia the same night was Mr. Waze. He says the fingerprints on the SUV matched Waze’s and that he was riding in a Toyota Innova, following the Mahindra Scorpio car.
The investigation has turned into a major embarrassment to the Maharashtra government, with the opposition BJP accusing Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray of protecting Vaze, a controversial police officer who was once a member of its Shiv Sena.
Vaze was the first investigating officer in the case after the van was found full of jelly sticks.
The van was traced to Mansukh Hiren, an auto parts dealer who had reported it stolen on February 17. Mr. Hiran was found dead in a stream near Mumbai on March 5. His wife claimed that Mr. Vaze had borrowed the same vehicle for four months and returned it on February 5. She also accused the policeman of having a role in her husband’s death.
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