Call for Param Bir's statement, ex-cop urges NIA court

Former encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma has filed an application before a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court, urging it to call for the statements recorded by the NIA of former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh in connection to the cases of the Antilia explosives scare and subsequent murder of Thane trader, Mansukh Hiran.

- Revu Suresh

MUMBAI:

In his plea, Sharma has stated that he came to know that Singh, in his statement before the NIA, had stated that their meetings (meetings between Singh, Sharma and co-accused Sachin Waze) on February 28, 2021, and March 2, 2021, were regarding the Suresh Pujari gang and had nothing to do with Hiran's murder.

Sharma has also mentioned the name of the then assistant police commissioner, Avinash Dharmadhikari, who too was questioned by the NIA in connection with the parking of an explosives-laden SUV near Antilia - the south Mumbai residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani - and the subsequent murder of the vehicle owner, Mansukh Hiran.