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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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