The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday seized a high-end car apparently registered in the name of arrested Mumbai Police officer Sachin Vaze from Navi Mumbai, an official mentioned. The probe group had been searching for this Mitsubishi Outlander SUV for the final a number of days, the official mentioned.
The NIA is probing the instances of the restoration of an explosives-laden SUV discovered exterior the south Mumbai residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani final month and the next homicide of businessman Mansukh Hiran, the purported proprietor of that car.
On particular info, a group of NIA officers travelled to the Kamothe space in Navi Mumbai and recovered the SUV, which was discovered parked exterior a housing society in sector 7, he mentioned.
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The car’s quantity plate reveals it was registered in the name of arrested API Sachin Vaze, the official added.
The NIA suspects that this SUV was pushed by a police officer who was Vaze’s colleague.
Earlier, the NIA had seized not less than 5 high-end automobiles allegedly utilized by Vaze which embody two Mercedes Benz, a Prado, the Scorpio which was used to hold explosives, and an Innova car which tailed the Scorpio on the day of planting of explosives exterior Ambani’s residence ‘Antilia’.
The ATS, which initially investigated the Hiran homicide case earlier than the NIA took over, had seized a Volvo car with the Maharashtra registration quantity from Union Territory of Daman. However, there was no readability about who owned that car.Â
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