Mumbai: In a recent twist to the Mansukh Hiren death case and the Antilia bomb scare case, sources have revealed that suspended cop Sachin Vaze player major role in both the cases and have even admitted to his crime.
According to ABP News sources, Sachin Vaze who is under NIA remand and is being probed continously, has admitted that he was the person who put the letter threatening the Ambanis, inside the explosive-laden SUV which was found outside Antilia, Mukesh Ambani's residence.
Sources have also revealed that not only in the Antilia cases but Sachin Vaze played a major role in the Mansukh Hiren case, the owner of the car which was found outiside Ambani's residence.
Sources said that it was Sachin Vaze who instructed his accomplices and planned the murder of Mansukh Hiren. Sources said that on the instructions of Vaze, former police constable Vinayak Shinde called Manuskh Hiren to the spot, made him unconscious, gagged him with a handkerchief, and threw him in the creek from where Hiren's body was recovered.
The ATS on March 21 arrested two men, Vinayak Shinde, a convicted constable on parole in an encounter case, and bookie Naresh Gor in the murder of the 48-year-old spare parts dealer, who is linked to the SUV that was found parked outside Mukesh Ambani’s Antilia residence last month containing 20 loose sticks of gelatin and a threatening letter addressed to the industrialist.
“Sachin Vaze confirmed to us that the concerned Scorpio car (found with gelatin sticks outside Mukesh Ambani’s residence Antilia) was not in his custody, and that he had no role to play in Mansukh Hiran’s murder… But when we started investigating the cause behind Hiran’s death, we arrested another suspended cop Vinayak Shinde who was also working under the instructions of Vaze,” Maharashtra ATS chief Jaijeet Singh said at a press conference in Mumbai on Tuesday.
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Vaze, arrested in the probe over the explosives recovered from the car outside Antilia in Mumbai late last month, has been sent by a Mumbai court to the custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody till March 25. NIA is likely to demand an extension for Vaze's custody today.
Mansukh Hiren was the registered owner of the explosive-laden Scorpio which was found outside Mukesh Ambani's residence 'Antilia' in Mumbai on February 25.
After the Scorpio with explosives was found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's South Mumbai house, Mansukh Hiren, a Thane resident, had claimed it had been stolen a week earlier.
Mansukh Hiren was found dead on March 5. Naupada Police fished out his body from the Mumbra creek in Thane.