The Maharashtra authorities has transferred as many as 86 police officers, including 65 from the Mumbai Police Crime Branch. Two of the transferred officers are stated to be suspended police officer Sachin Vaze’s close confidantes.
The two suspended cops are Assistant Police Inspector Riyazuddin Qazi and Assistant Police Inspector Prakash Hoval. Both of them have been subordinates of Sachin Vaze.
Both the cops are believed to have been questioned a number of instances by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in reference to the Antilia bomb scare case.
Vaze is on the focus of a probe by the National Investigating Agency in a case associated to the restoration of an SUV with explosives close to Ambani’s home in Mumbai. Referred to as an encounter specialist, Vaze was suspended in 2004 and was controversially reinstated by Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities led by Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray.
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