MUMBAI: The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) on Tuesday seized a high-end automotive apparently registered within the identify of arrested Mumbai Police officer Sachin Waze from Navi Mumbai, an official stated.
The probe workforce had been searching for this Mitsubishi Outlander SUV for the final a number of days, the official stated.
The NIA is probing the instances of the restoration of an explosives-laden SUV discovered outdoors the south Mumbai residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani final month and the following homicide of businessman Mansukh Hiran, the purported proprietor of that automobile.
On particular data, a workforce of NIA officers travelled to Kamothe space in Navi Mumbai and recovered the SUV, which was discovered parked outdoors a housing society in sector 7, he stated.
The automotive’s quantity plate exhibits it was registered within the identify of arrested API Sachin Waze, the official added.
The NIA suspects that this SUV was pushed by a police officer who was Waze’s colleague.
Earlier, the NIA had seized no less than 5 high-end automobiles allegedly utilized by Waze which embody two Mercedes Benz, a Prado, the Scorpio which was used to hold explosives, and an Innova automotive which tailed the Scorpio on the day of planting of explosives outdoors Ambani’s residence ‘Antilia’.
The ATS, which initially investigated the Hiran homicide case earlier than the NIA took over, had seized a Volvo automotive with the Maharashtra registration quantity from Union Territory of Daman.
Nevertheless, there was no readability about who owned that automotive.
