Sachin Vaze Latest News: After twice suspending and reinstating him, the Mumbai Police has ultimately terminated Sachin Vaze from the division. “API Sachin Waze has been dismissed from Police service with immediate effect. The order of dismissal has been issued under Article 311(2)(B) of the Constitution of India,” stated Mumbai Police in a tweet late last evening. Article 311(2)(B) of the Constitution of India bargains with dismissal, removal or reduction in rank of government officials. The order terminating Sachin Vaze’s service was issued by Mumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale.
API Sachin Waze has been dismissed from Police service with instant impact. The order of dismissal has been issued below Article 311(2)(B) of the Constitution of India.
— Mumbai Police (@MumbaiPolice) May 11, 2021
Vaze, who was arrested by the NIA in the case of an explosives-laden SUV located close to Mukesh Ambani’s property and the murder of businessman Mansukh Hiran, is in judicial custody of the NIA. He was arrested by the NIA on March 13. Sachin Vaze was a 1990-batch officer of the Maharashtra cadre and was also recognized as the encounter cop.
Sachin Vaze’s services was reinstated in June 2020 by the Maha Vikas Aghadi government immediately after a gap of 16 years due to suspension in a case associated to the custodial death of Khwaja Yunus, an accused in the Ghatkopar bomb blast of 2002.
After his return, he was appointed the head of the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) which is an elite branch of the Mumbai Crime Branch.
The SUV case pertains to the parking of a Scorpio with explosives close to Ambani’s residence Antilia on February 25. Mansukh Hiran, a Thane-based businessman who owned the SUV, was located dead in a creek in Thane on March 5. Vaze is accused in each the incidents and is believed to have plotted each the incidents.
The NIA has so far arrested 5 persons such as Vaze, API Riyazuddin Kazi, and Crime Branch senior inspector Sunil Mane in connection with the SUV-cum-murder case.
The case also exposed a hyperlink amongst Vaze and Anil Deshmukh, who was Maharashtra’s Home Minister and had to resign immediately after a CBI probe was ordered against him. Vaze has alleged that Deshmukh asked him to gather Rs one hundred crore each month from the city’s hotels, restaurants and bars.