Mansukh Hiran case: ATS seizes high-end car from Daman

The Maharashtra AntiTerrorism Squad ATS has seized a highend car from Daman in connection with the Mansukh Hiran murder case an official said on TuesdayThe Volvo car with the Maharashtra registration number was seized on Monday the official said adding there is no clarity so far on who owned this carThe seized car is kept at the ATS office in Thane neighbouring Mumbai he saidThe official said that a team of Forensic officials from Mumbai is examining the car at the ATS officeAfter arresting two persons on Saturday night in connection with the murder case the ATS detained a person from Gujarat who had allegedly provided them SIM cards officials had said adding they recovered many SIM cards from the personThe ATS last week arrested suspended policeman Vinayak Shinde and cricket bookie Naresh Gaur in the caseThe SUV with explosives found near industrialist Mukesh Ambanis house in Mumbai on February 25 had been allegedly stolen from possession of Hiran the Thanebased businessman whose body was found in a creek in Mumbra on March 5The National Investigation Agency NIA which is probing the case of recovery of the explosivesladen SUV and arrested Mumbai Police officer Sachin Waze had seized five highend cars during its probe including two Mercedes 1 Prado the Scorpio which was used to carry explosives and an Innova carThe ATS had said that Waze was also a prime accused in the Hiran murder caseThe NIA suspects that at least three of the seized five cars were used by Waze who was posted as Assistant Police Inspector API with the Crime Intelligence Unit API when arrested on March 13 He was later suspended from serviceOn Monday morning the ATS team took accused Shinde to the residence of Waze in Thane and later to the creek in Mumbra were Hirans body was foundThough the Hiran murder case was transferred to the NIA on March 20 the ATS is still conducting investigationOn Sunday ATS DIG Shivdeep Lande had posted a message on Facebook stating that the Hiran murder case had been crackedThe accused Shinde was convicted in the 2006 Lakhan Bhaiya fake encounter case and came out of jail on furlough last year He was allegedly in touch with Waze who himself was once known as encounter specialist officer since thenApparently it was Shinde who had called Hiran from suburban Kandivali by identifying himself as Tawde saheb on March 4 according to the ATSThe ATS had registered a murder case under section 302 punishment for murder 201 causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender 120B criminal conspiracy and 34 common intention of the Indian Penal Code IPC against unknown persons days after Hirans body was foundThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever