A sessions court in Mumbai on Friday granted bail to dismissed Mumbai Police officer Sachin Waze in an alleged money laundering case linked to former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 20 (ANI): Former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Wednesday told the Chandiwal commission that the former police commissioner Param Bir Singh was 'shivering' when he was summoned for questioning in the Antilia bomb scare.

Mumbai Nov 25 PTI NCP leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Thursday hit out at Param Bir Singh saying the former Mumbai police commissioner finally made an appearance after being declared an absconder by a court The IPS officer who is facing several extortion cases landed in Mumbai on Thursday after remaining incommunicado for the past several months Singhs appearance in Mumbai today proved that it was necessary that he be declared an absconderHe hasnt reported for duty after he was transferred from the post of Mumbai police commissioner Singh moved the Supreme Court to get protection from arrest Nobody will believe his contention in the apex court that he faces threat to his life Malik told reporters He alleged that Singh levelled false allegations against former home minister and NCP leader Anil Deshmukh in a politically-motivated case Malik said Deshmukh will fight the case in courts and prove his innocence On Wednesday Singh had told new channels that he was in Chandigarh and that he would soon visit Mumbai Last week a magistrates court here had declared Singh a proclaimed offender in an extortion case registered against him and some other police officers in the city Singh currently posted as Director General of Home Guards had attended his office last in May after which he went on leave The state police had told the Bombay High Court in October that his whereabouts were not known After his transfer from the post of Mumbai police commissioner he had levelled allegations of corruption against Deshmukh Singh was transferred after Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze was arrested in the case of an SUV with explosives found near industrialist Mukesh Ambanis house Antilia and the subsequent suspicious death of businessman Mansukh Hiran PTI MR NP NP

Mumbai Nov 25 PTI Former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh who has been declared a proclaimed offender by a Mumbai court reached the city on Thursday I will join the investigation as directed by the court Singh told media on arrival The IPS officer who is facing several extortion cases in Maharashtra had told news channels on Wednesday that he was in Chandigarh Singh has not reported to work since May this year after his transfer from the post of Mumbai police commissioner and his subsequent allegations of corruption against then Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh The Supreme Court has now granted Singh protection from arrest He was transferred after Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze was arrested in the case of an SUV with explosives found near industrialist Mukesh Ambanis house Antilia and the subsequent suspicious death of businessman Mansukh Hiran PTI DC VT VT VT

Mumbai Oct 30 PTI A magistrate on Saturday refused to stay a production warrant issued against dismissed police officer Sachin Waze in an extortion case citing that the accused cannot approach the court directly with a plea saying he should not be produced before the court The special NIA court had on Friday allowed the Mumbai police to take custody of Waze for interrogation in connection with an extortion case registered at Goregaon police station The special court had directed the prison authorities to handover Wazes custody to the crime branch on November 1 and has further instructed the prison to take back Wazes custody after he is produced before the magistrate court Wazes lawyer Raunak Naik approached the magistrate court on Saturday seeking a stay on the production warrant it had issued The accused in his plea claimed that he has not fully recovered post his complex heart surgery in September and has been advised to follow certain dos and donts Appearing for the Mumbai police advocate Shekhar Jagtap vehemently objected the application on the ground that there is no provision in the Code of Criminal Procedure CrPC to stay a production warrant After hearing both sides additional chief metropolitan magistrate S B Bhajipale found that the application was not maintainable and rejected it As per provisions in the CrPC the officer in-charge of prison may abstain from carrying out the production warrant on the ground of reason of sickness or infirmity of the person unfit to be removed from the prison the court said However the court noted that the jail authorities had not intimated it about such a situation The accused cannot claim directly by approaching before this court that he should not be produced before the court the magistrate said It further said that the investigating officer is authorised to take a decision regarding the place of interrogation of the accused Considering the facts and circumstances I have come to the conclusion that the present application is not maintainable hence rejected Waze an accused in the Antilia bomb scare case and in the murder of businessman Mansukh Hiran is currently in judicial custody and lodged in Taloja jail PTI AVI ARU ARU

Mumbai Oct 26 PTI The National Investigation Agency NIA has opposed dismissed Mumbai police officer Sachin Wazes plea seeking temporary transfer from the Taloja prison to house arrest in the Bombay High Court saying Waze being a highly influential person may abscond and tamper with prosecution witnesses if let out of the prison In an affidavit filed before the high court on Tuesday the NIA said Waze was accused of serious offences including being part of the conspiracy to kill businessman Mansukh Hiran and planting an explosives-laden vehicle near the residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani in south Mumbai If any House Arrest custody is granted to the petitioner accused there is every likelihood that said petitioner accused will abscond from the jurisdiction of this Honble court and will tamper with the prosecution witnesses including the protected witnesses who allegedly were his associates the affidavit reads And it is not difficult for the petitioner accused to figure out who they are even though the fact is that their identity and addresses are protected since the petitioner accused is a highly influential person in the area of Mumbai it reads The affidavit was submitted in response to a plea filed by Waze earlier this month seeking that he be shifted from judicial custody to house arrest for his post-operative care following bypass surgery Waze had requested the court that he be permitted to remain under house arrest till he recovered fully The NIA however said in the affidavit that Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai had required facilities for Wazes post-operative care and that if required he could be taken to the state-run JJ Hospital in Mumbai Waze had sought parity with Elgar Parishad accused Varavara Rao who had been granted interim medical bail in February this year owing to his advanced age and worsening health The NIA said in its affidavit that Wazes case was different from that of Rao and while the latter had been granted medical bail Waze was asking for continuing judicial custody in the form of house arrest A bench of justices Nitin Jamdar and SV Kotwal on Tuesday directed Wazes counsel advocate Raunak Naik to place on record Wazes post-surgery medical papers The high court also directed the state prison authorities to submit Wazes latest medical reports It will hear the plea further next month PTI AYA NSK NSK

New Delhi [India], September 8 (ANI): The charge sheet filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the Antilia bomb scare and Mansukh Hiren murder cases revealed that dismissed Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze paid a huge amount of cash to Shiv Sena leader and former 'encounter specialist' of Mumbai Police, Pradeep Sharma to eliminate Hiren.