Image Source : INDIA TV Mansukh Hiren dying: Maharashtra ATS registers homicide case towards unidentified individuals
Two days after the physique of Mansukh Hiren, the purported proprietor of the automotive with explosives discovered outdoors industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence right here final month, was present in a creek, the Maharashtra ATS on Sunday registered a case of homicide towards unidentified individuals, an official stated.
The formal orders handy over the probe into the dying of Hiren (46) to the ATS had been issued on Saturday late night time.
The Anti-terrorism Squad (ATS) registered the FIR towards unidentified individuals on the order of the state dwelling division below varied sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), together with homicide, disappearance of proof, and a felony conspiracy, the official stated.
Accordingly, all of the paperwork associated to the case had been handed over to the ATS by Mumbra police in Thane district.
Earlier, members of the family of the deceased had demanded registration of a homicide case and refused to take possession of his physique.
However, they lastly agreed to say the physique on Saturday on the intervention of senior law enforcement officials in Thane.
Vimla Hiren, spouse of the deceased, had filed a grievance with the police.
The physique of Hiren was fished out from a creek in neighbouring Thane district on the morning of March 5, hours after he went “missing”.
Hiren, an vehicle equipment supplier from Thane, had purportedly written a letter on March 2 to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh and police commissioners of Thane and Mumbai, alleging that he was being harassed by the police and media because the automobile was discovered outdoors Ambani’s home.
He had additionally claimed that regardless of being a sufferer, he was handled like an accused.
The automotive, a Scorpio, with 20 gelatin sticks inside was discovered close to ‘Antilia’, the multi-storey residence of Mukesh Ambani in south Mumbai, on February 25.
Police had stated the automobile was stolen from Airoli-Mulund Bridge on February 18.
The ATS had already taken over the probe into the safety scare outdoors Ambani’s residence.
In the letter, Hiren claimed that he was being harassed regardless of not having any data in regards to the culprits, who not solely “stole his vehicle but also misused it”.
A Thane Police official had stated that Hiren had left his store round 8.30 pm on March 4 in an autorickshaw and since then his cellphone was switched off.
“His family members had lodged a missing person’s report on Friday morning after he did not return home and a case was registered at Naupada police station. By that time, a body was found at Mumbra and it was later confirmed that the deceased was Mansukh,” he had stated, including that Hiren’s cell phone is but to be recovered.
Officials on Saturday stated the post-mortem report of Hiren reserved the opinion on the reason for his dying and added that no seen exterior accidents had been discovered on his physique.
The viscera of Hiren was already despatched for forensic evaluation, they stated.
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