MUMBAI: A special NIA court A M Patil on Saturday rejected the bail plea filed by ex-assistant police inspector Sachin Waze who was accused and arrested in Antilia bomb scare and Mansukh Hiran murder case.
Waze, dismissed from service, is facing terror charges under the stringent anti-terror law—Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
On February 25, 2021, an explosives-laden SUV was found near "Antilia" in south Mumbai. Hiran, who said he was in possession of the SUV before it was allegedly stolen, was found dead in a creek in neighbouring Thane on March 5, 2021.
Waze is the main accused in the case along with a few more police officials and others including a bookie Naresh Gaur accused of allegedly getting SIM cards illegally.
Waze’s case was that there is no material to even remotely indicate as to how, from whom and where he had procured gelatine sticks or had placed the gelatin sticks in the four-wheeler outside and he said the Bombay high court has observed that there is a shoddy investigation in this regard.
His lawyers said the sanction to prosecute lacked application of mind and the gelatine sticks without the detonators could never have exploded and thus there was not even a likelihood of an act of terror.
