Mumbai: Tained Mumbai Police ‘encouner specialist’ Sachin Vaze was slapped with stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act by the National Investigative Agency (NIA) on Wednesday. Billed as a first-rate accused, Assistant Police Inspector (API) Vaze was arrested by NIA on March 13 in reference to Scorpio SUV with 20 gelatin sticks and a menace be aware, parked close to Antilia, the house of industrialist Mukesh Ambani.”
“The company has added the sections of the UA(P)A towards Vaze, who was arrested on March 13 in reference to Scorpio SUV with 20 gelatin sticks and a menace be aware, parked close to Antilia, the house of industrialist Mukesh Ambani,” an NIA official told news agency IANS.
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As per reports, has been charged under sections 16 and 18 of the UAPA, which deals with an individual or a group conspiring or attempt to commit or advocates, abets, the commission of a terrorist act.
The NIA had taken over the SUV case probe on March 3 after notification from the Central government.
The Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS), which is probing the businessman Mansukh Hiran’s death aspect of the case, was planning to seek Vaze’s custody on Thursday. ATS has called him ‘mastermind’ of Hiran death case.
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In a significant improvement, ATS, earlier this week, claimed that it has solved the Hiran case with the arrest of two individuals and was within the strategy of winding up the probe.
However, late final week, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has requested the investigative company to additionally take over probe the mysterious dying of Thane-based businessman Hiran, whose physique was discovered from the marshes in Thane Creek on March 5.
