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Breakfast Politics: will a cop under probe

bring down Maharashtra’s fragile Govt?

Sharad Pawar’s meeting with Amit Shah makes tongues wagging as Mumbai cop Sachin Waze’s plan and story gets murkier

Our Bureau wanted to become a super cop
by solving the case as its investi-
Mumbai/Ahmedabad gation officer, NIA sources said
n Monday afternoon, on Thursday.
the Shiv Sena was con- However, the National In-
Ovinced that a meeting of vestigation Agency is verifying
its top ally, Sharad Pawar, with Waze’s claim and the motive of
Home Minister Amit Shah, was the crime. “Reports that one of
all imagination. “I can say with the crime intelligence unit (CIU)
conviction that the meeting did colleagues of Sachin Waze has
not take place”, tweeted Sanjay been made an approver in the
Raut, a leader of the Sena, trying Antilia bomb scare case is not
his hand at moving the pendulum true. The decision of making
back from where he had set it just someone an approver can only
hours ago - the day began with be taken at later stages after the
him acknowledging that the sto- Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar during a press conference, chargesheet,” said NIA sources.
ried dinner meeting, just two days in New Delhi on Tuesday. (ANI) Waze claimed in the court
old, was in the realm of possibil- that he was made a scapegoat in
ity - or at any rate, his party had the case. “I have cooperated in
no reason to believe otherwise. the investigation till now and I
“If Amit Shah and Sharad just only pray that I should not be
Pawar met, why worry,” he had sent to police custody remand.”
tendered, “can’t a senior MP Waze, Assistant Police In-
meet the Home Minister?” spector in the Crime Intelligence
The shifting uneasily from Unit (CIU), was arrested in con-
one foot to the other is compre- nection with the investigation
hensible. If Pawar did indeed into the recovery of explosives
meet the Home Minister at a from a car parked near Ambani’s
Gujarati billionaire’s Ahmed- house in Mumbai on February 25.
abad home on Saturday night, it Earlier, amid the controversy
would considerably bulk up the Two cars being taken to National Investigation Agency (NIA) office in con- over suspended Mumbai Police
strain being shouldered by the nection with the Sachin Waze case, in Mumbai on Thursday. (ANI) ASI Sachin Waze, Maharashtra
three-party government in Ma- Home Minister Anil Deshmukh
harashtra. who reportedly owned it, Man- Bombay High Court to investi- on Tuesday said an attempt is
The entire matter is docked sukh Hiran, was found dead in gate Anil Deshmukh. being made to mislead people
on whether Home Minister Anil a river within the week. His wife For Chief Minister Thac- by disseminating wrong informa-
Deshmukh, a senior leader of said that the SUV had in fact keray, who is head of the Shiv tion about him.
Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Con- been taken by Sachin Waze three Sena, the timing of Waze-gate Former Mumbai Police
gress Party or the NCP, did or did months earlier. is inimical. Covid cases have Commissioner Param Bir Singh
not deploy a controversial police Sachin Waze was arrested on sprinted upwards, forcing a night last Saturday wrote a letter to
officer, Sachin Waze, to “collect” March 13. The dotted line from curfew across the state; a lock- Maharashtra Chief Minister
100 crores every month for the him to the state’s Home Minister down is under consideration. Uddhav Thackeray alleging
government. has been drawn by the former In the one-and-a-half-year his- that Deshmukh had indulged in
The alleged exercise in ex- top cop of Mumbai, Param Bir tory of his government, in han- “malpractices” and asked sus-
tortion blew up in an unattend- Singh. Anil Deskhmukh’s party dling a spurt of crises, many pended API Sachin Waze to col-
ed SUV being parked about a says the conspiracy alleged by caused by the friction within lect Rs 100 crore every month.
month ago near the legendary Param Bir Singh is vendetta for the ruling alliance, he has relied The allegations made by
Mumbai home of Mukesh Am- his being removed from office; on the close working relation- Param Bir Singh came a day after
bani; within, gelatin sticks and Param Bir Singh has on the oth- ship he has with Sharad Pawar. Deshmukh had said that Singh
a note warning the industrialist er hand said he tried to alert the Meanwhile, Sachin Waze has was moved out as Mumbai Po-
and his wife of imminent danger. government to Sachin Waze’s claimed that he had planted the lice Commissioner so that cases
The SUV’s license plates misdeeds and was steadfastly ig- explosives outside Mukesh Am- pertaining to Waze were probed
turned out to be fake; the man nored; he has also petitioned the bani’s residence ‘Antilia’ as he without obstruction.

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