The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad on Sunday announced that it had solved the case of Mansukh Hiren’s murder and named Sachin Vaze as the essential conspirator and ‘wanted accused’. Informing about the breakthrough in the case on Twitter, Maharashtra ATS DIG Shivdeep Lande stated that his group had solved the mysterious Mansukh Hiren murder case. The announcement came hours right after the ATS arrested two persons, Naresh Gor and Vinayak Shinde, for their alleged part in murder of Hiren.
reports that Gor is a cricket bookie, even though Shinde is a constable convicted in a 2006 case of abetment and assisting in the encounter of Lakhan Bhaiyya, an aide of Chhota Rajan. Sachin Vaze, at present in NIA custody, is the essential conspirator and has been named as the “wanted accused” in the remand application of Gor and Shinde, who had been remanded in police custody on Sunday.
According to IE, Gor and Shinde have been arrested on technical proof collected in the course of the probe by ATS. Sharing the information major up to the duo’s arrest, an ATS supply told IE that Gor, a Kutch resident, procured eight SIM cards illegally from Gujarat and passed them on to Shinde. Shinde, the report stated, acted as a mediator and handed more than the SIM cards to Sachin Vaze.
The cards had been handed more than to Vaze in the very first week of February. Citing sources, IE reports that Hiren’s killers had known as posing as Tawde, employing one of the eight seized SIM cards. As per the report, Shinde had been dismissed from the force as he was a convict and was serving a life imprisonment. He, even so, came out on parole in May 2020 due to the pandemic. Since then, Shinde was in continual touch with Vaze and would “help him in all his illegal activities”.
A supply told IE that Shinde was frequently observed at the CIU workplace in the Mumbai commissionerate. The ATS suspects that Shinde is also involved in planting gelatin sticks close to Antilia. The ATS, the report stated, has seized 3 mobile phones and eight SIM cards from Shinde and Gor.
While looking for custody of Gor and Shinde, the ATS in its remand application stated that it wanted to ascertain the cause behind Hiren’s murder. It also also stated it necessary proof to safe a hyperlink in between the car or truck theft, explosives and the murder. “We need to recover the vehicle they used to kill Hiran. We also have to seize the phones that were used to contact him,” stated the remand application cited by IE.
Hiren was located dead at Kalwa creek close to Thane. He had earlier stated that his car or truck was stolen just before becoming located close to Mukesh Ambani’s residence. However, the NIA believes that Vaze had asked Hiren to park his automobile at a specific location and hand more than the keys. A week later, the automobile with gelatin sticks inside was located close to Antilia.