Ambani threat case: Vaze linked with ‘powerful’ people, part of deep-rooted conspiracy (IANS Special)

Mumbai/Delhi, March 14 : Interrogation of Mumbai Police “encounter specialist” Sachin Vaze in the Ambani security scare case points towards a deep-rooted conspiracy involving a few “powerful” persons.
Assistant Police Inspector (API) Sachin Vaze, seen close to the top leadership of Shiv Sena, has been in touch with “powerful” persons during the period he hatched a conspiracy to plant a gelatin sticks-laden SUV near industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s house in Mumbai, sources in the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said.
While NIA officials remained tight-lipped over revealing Vaze’s “powerful” connection, BJP spokesperson and legislator Ram Kadam said that the controversial cop is patronised by Shiv Sena leadership and he cannot execute the crime to scare the top business house of the country without the tacit backing of the ruling party.
“NIA is questioning him (Vaze) on the conspiracy part. The truth will be out in days to come,” Kadam told IANS adding,” despite Sachin Vaze’s arrest, the Maharashtra government has not yet suspended the tainted police officer. The ruling party and Vaze obviously seem hand-in-glove”.
The 49-year-old encounter specialist has not been arrested for the first time. In 2004, he was booked in a controversial custodial murder case in Mumbai. He later resigned from the police department in 2007 and joined the Shiv Sena.
“As his resignation was not accepted, his services were not terminated. When Shiv Sena returned to power in Mumbai, Sachin Vaze was reinstated in police service in June 2020. Obviously Vaze was seen as the most powerful officer in the Shiv Sena led Maha Vikas Aghadi government,” revealed a former police officer who served with Vaze earlier in the Mumbai Crime Branch.