NCP leader and Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik has now alleged that the former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh and fired cop Sachin Wase had planned the bomb conspiracy near industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence ‘Antilia’ in Mumbai.
Malik on Tuesday asserted that both the police officials had even planned the “fake” encounter of a goon by showing him as a Pakistani national with the help of fake passport (after the bomb scare episode).
The NCP leader also asserted that Singh and Waze had deceived the state home ministry regarding the Antilia bomb scare case. Gotten some information about Anil Deshmukh’s resignation as the state home minister recently, Malik named it as “politically motivated”.
An explosives-loaded SUV was found close to Antilia in south Mumbai in February this year. A couple of days later, businessman Mansukh Hiran, who was in control of the SUV, was observed dead in a river at Mumbra in the adjoining Thane region.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is leading an investigation into the Antilia bomb scare case. The central agency had in March detained Waze for his supposed involvement in the case. Waze, who was then serving as an associate police inspector, was subsequently fired from his job.
Malik asserted that Singh and Waze had given wrong briefings to the state home service to “mislead” it in the (Antilia bomb scare) case.
“Param Bir Singh and Sachin Waze had planned the Antilia bomb threat. They had even made a fake passport with the entry and exit stamps of Pakistan for a goon. If Mansukh Hiran wasn’t killed or had he surrendered, then both had planned the fake encounter of the goon, showing him as a terrorist,” said the Maharashtra minister.
The NIA had found a fake passport at Waze’s home, even the ‘panchnama’ referenced the passport. The NIA should put it forward in front the public, Mr Malik said.
To a question that Deshmukh and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had supported Waze after the Antilia bomb scare, Malik said a minister or a CM speak based on briefings from authorities.
“Singh and Waze, considering their planning in the case, were briefing the home minister and the CM and based on it the latter were speaking in the legislature. Both the officers were misleading the minister,” he asserted.
In the mean time, the Maharashtra government on Tuesday requested an investigation into a meeting between fired cop Sachin Waze and IPS official Param Bir Singh which has caused a ripple as Waze is in legal custody and both are charged in a extortion case.
