Bombay HC rejects bail plea of former police officer Pradeep Sharma

Bombay High Court while rejecting the plea of former police officer Pradeep Sharma has said that the NIA has not established any link between the accused Sharma and the dismissed police officer Sachin Waze.

Sharma was arrested by the National Investigation Agency in connection with the Antilia terror scare case. The NIA chargesheet, however, did not mention the names of the co-conspirators of Sachin Waze with whom he had conspired to leave a car laden with the gelatin sticks outside the Ambani building. The case pertains to the murder of Thane businessman Mansukh Hiren and parking a car full of explosive outside Antilia, the residence of the industrialist Mukesh Ambani. The court has also observed that if such big conspiracy was happening, then it could not be done all alone by Sachin Waze.

Sharma was booked for charges including murder, criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, causing disappearance, and destruction of evidence under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and under provisions of the Unlawful Activities Act and the Arms Act. During the hearing of bail plea by Sharma on 23^rd January, the advocate representing the NIA said Sachin Waze created this conspiracy along with Pradeep Sharma, while nothing of this sort was in the chargesheet.