NIA arrests former Mumbai police personnel Pradeep Sharma in Ambani security scare-Hiran murder case
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An NIA staff had picked up Sharma from Lonavla close to Mumbai late on Wednesday night time, after which he was delivered to the Central company’s workplace in south Mumbai for questioning, he stated.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested former “encounter specialist” police officer Pradeep Sharma in Mumbai for his alleged involvement in the ‘Antilia’ bomb scare case and the murder of businessman Mansukh Hiran, an official stated.
An NIA staff had picked up Sharma from Lonavla close to Mumbai late on Wednesday night time, after which he was delivered to the Central company’s workplace in south Mumbai for questioning, he stated.
“The NIA also conducted a raid at his residence located in J. B. Nagar in Mumbai’s Andheri (west) around 6 a.m., and the operation continued for several hours. The officials recovered some incriminating documents from his house,” the official stated.
After questioning him for a couple of hours, the NIA positioned him beneath arrest on Thursday, he stated, including that Sharma will probably be produced earlier than a neighborhood courtroom as soon as a medical examination is performed on him.
Around two months in the past, the NIA had questioned Sharma at its workplace for 2 days after his title cropped up in the case.
Sharma is the fifth individual from the Police Department to be arrested in the case by the NIA. This is the eighth over arrest in the case.
Earlier, the company had arrested police officers Sachin Vaze, Riyazuddin Kazi, Sunil Mane. After their arrest, they had been dismissed from service. The company had additionally arrested former police constable Vinayak Shinde in this connection together with cricket bookie Naresh Gor.
On June 11, the NIA held Santosh Shelar and Anand Jadhav from suburban Malad, saying that each of them had been concerned in the conspiracy to plant the explosives-laden SUV close to industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence.
The SUV was discovered deserted close to Ambani’s south Mumbai residence ‘Antilia’ on February 25 this 12 months. Thane-based businessman Mansukh Hiran, who had claimed that he was in possession of the automobile, was discovered useless at a Mumbra creek on March 5.
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