Ambani Bomb Scare: Everything NIA Said About Suspended Cop Sachin Vaze

Ambani Bomb Scare: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been probing the bomb scare case outside billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s house in Mumbai.

Written by: India.com News Desk Edited by: Sharmita Kar

Updated: March 17, 2021, 11:17 AM IST

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Mukesh Ambani Bomb Scare: The man in PPE kit found to be Sachin Vaze, revealed his staff.

Mumbai: The man seen outside Antilia wearing a PPE kit was Sachin Vaze himself, his staff revealed, alleging that Vaze “destroyed his PPE kit”. However, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) clarified that Vaze was not wearing a PPE but an “oversized kurta-pajama” and his head was covered “with a large handkerchief”. The NIA has been probing the bomb scare case outside billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s house in Mumbai.

Vaze is at the focus of the investigation and has already been arrested for his alleged involvement in planting explosives in the SUV found near Antilia. A total of 20 gelatin sticks were seized and a threat note was recovered, along with fake number plates on February 25.

Here’s what NIA has said so far:

• The NIA said Vaze was examined during investigations by NIA officers on March 13 wherein complicity of the accused in the offences committed and his direct involvement in planting of the explosive-laden SUV at Carmichael Road on the intervening night of February 24 and 25 had emerged.
• NIA was probing if the man who is seen in a CCTV grab near Antilia, wearing a PPE on the night when Scorpio was parked, is Sachin Vaze or not. NIA is checking his alibi and CCTV footage.
• Last evening, the NIA seized a black Mercedes Benz after searching his office, which was supposedly used by the accused Mumbai police official Sachin Vaze. The probe agency also recovered the number plate of the stolen SUV Scorpio, which was planted with 20 gelatin sticks and a threat note outside Ambani’s house.
• In the CCTV footage, Sachin Waze could be seen with his head covered with a large handkerchief so that no one could identify him. He was wearing an oversized kurta-pajama, and not PPE coverall, in an attempt to mask his body language and face.
• A laptop was seized from the cabin of Sachin Waze in a raid day before yesterday but all the data in it was already deleted. He was asked for his cellphone and he had said that he had dropped it somewhere. But the fact is that he had intentionally thrown it away.

Who is Sachin Vaze?

Born on 22 February 1972, Sachin Hindurao Vaze joined Maharashtra Police Force in 1990. He is popularly known as an ‘encounter specialist’ with the Mumbai Encounter Squad.

Vaze was previously suspended in 2004 over his role in the custodial death of a 2002 Ghatkopar blast suspect Khwaja Yunus and was reinstated last year.

He is credited with the deaths of as many as 63 alleged criminals. He also led the team that arrested journalist Arnab Goswami in November last year in a suicide abetment case and was a member of Shiv Sena till 2008.

Encounter specialist Vaze was suspended from his duty on Sunday and sent to NIA custody till March 25. In its order dismissing Sachin Vaze’s interim bail plea, the Thane court had said that his “custodial interrogation is necessary”.

Vaze was arrested on Saturday following nearly 12 hours of questioning.