Mumbai: Assistant Police Inspector Riyaz Hisamuddin Kazi, arrested by the NIA within the case of SUV with explosives discovered close to industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence and the following dying of businessman Mansukh Hiran, was dismissed from service on Friday (May 21), an official stated.
Kazi, a former colleague of Sachin Waze within the Mumbai crime department, was dismissed by town police commissioner underneath Article 311 (2)(b) of the Constitution which makes it potential to sack a authorities servant with out a departmental inquiry if holding such inquiry just isn’t deemed practicable, he stated.Â
Waze, well-known as an `encounter specialist’, too has been arrested within the case and dismissed from service. Both Waze and Kazi had been working within the Crime Intelligence Unit of Mumbai police.Â
An SUV with explosives was discovered close to Ambani’s residence `Antilia’ in south Mumbai in February this yr. Hiran, a Thane-based businessman who claimed that the car had been stolen from his possession every week earlier, was discovered lifeless in a creek on March 5. The case was subsequently taken over by the National Investigation Agency.
(inputs from company)
