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  • Another twist to Antilia automobile case: Scorpio belonged to Thane resident, not Hiren

    Central to the investigation of the February 25 safety scare outdoors the South Mumbai dwelling of industrialist Mukesh Ambani is a Mahindra Scorpio car. It was discovered parked a number of metres from Antilia, the Ambani dwelling on Carmichael Road. Inside had been 20 gelatin sticks and a notice addressed to the household, warning worse.
    The man to whom the police traced the car had reported it stolen eight days earlier than the Antilia incident. In lower than every week, his physique is discovered floating in a creek outdoors Mumbai.
    Police suspect he was murdered.
    The car had false quantity plates, and the chassis and engine quantity had been scratched. With the assistance of a finance firm whose identify and quantity had been written on the rear glass of the car, police tracked down its precise registration quantity – MH02AY 2815. Then they traced it to Mansukh Hiren, the person who had made a police grievance at Vikhroli that the car had been stolen on February 17.
    Cracking the theft of the automobile may present investigators with the breakthrough that they want within the different two instances – the incident at Antilia, and Hiren’s alleged homicide.

    Investigation of the Antilia incident has now been taken over by the NIA; the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) continues to research the homicide and the car’s theft.
    As it has turned out, Hiren was not the proprietor of the Scorpio. The car was registered at Thane RTO on April 7, 2007 by one Sam Peter Newton, a resident of Thane.
    As per Hiren’s assertion to the Crime Branch earlier than his dying, he had been acquainted with Newton since 2016. Hiren had a automobile decor enterprise in Thane, and Newton had requested him to suit the car with some equipment. “The bill for the work came to Rs 2.80 lakh and he (Newton) gave me two cheques, drawn on Axis Bank and HDFC Bank. I returned his vehicle, but when I deposited the cheques, both bounced,” Hiren had stated.
    According to Hiren, he had tried to get his dues out of Newton, however had failed. On April 6, 2018, Hiren met Newton at Viviana Mall in Thane and pressed him for the cash. After Newton expressed his lack of ability to pay, Hiren took him to Naupada police station (in Thane).
    “At Naupada police station, Newton promised to make the payment in 15 days and till then, he asked me to use the car,” Hiren informed police. He then roughly took over the 13-year-old car.
    In her assertion, Hiren’s spouse Vimla has stated that Hiren had handed over the car to Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Vaze, who had used it for 4 months from November 2020 to February 5 this yr.
    When The Indian Express contacted Newton for a remark, he stated he couldn’t communicate as a result of the matter was below investigation.
    Senior police officers informed The Indian Express that Vaze has denied having ever had the car. According to Hiren’s spouse, after Vaze returned the car on February 5, it was together with her husband for lower than 12 days. According to Hiren’s assertion, he had left the car by the facet of Eastern Express Highway close to Vikhroli after it broke down whereas he was on his solution to Mumbai on February 17, and continued the journey by an Ola cab. At or close to Crawford Market, Hiren had met with a buddy, Pawan Ostwal, after which gone to Opera House. Later, he had met Ostwal once more close to Masjid Bunder, and the boys had gone again to Thane collectively.

    At 12 midday on February 18, in accordance with Hiren’s assertion, he went to retrieve his car, however discovered it was lacking. He requested visitors police personnel there, after which went to Vikhroli police station and lodged a case of theft.
    An official from the Vikhroli police stated a case below IPC Section 379 (theft) was registered, during which Hiren talked about that the automobile belonged to his buddy Dr Sam Newton.
    Vimla informed police that they’d seen the car on TV on the night it was discovered, however had didn’t recognise it as a result of the registration quantity was completely different.
    The ATS tracked the car via Wadhwa Motors Cars & Finance, the corporate whose identify and phone quantity was on it. Investigators acquired to Newton, after which confirmed up at Hiren’s dwelling at Thane’s Ambedkar Road at 11pm on February 25. Hiren and his son Lucky recognized the car via its seat covers and a Ganesha idol, in addition to the finance firm’s identify on it.
    However, two weeks after discovering out particulars concerning the automobile, police are but to resolve the important thing puzzle: who stole the car from Vikhroli, the place Hiren left it on February 17?

  • Ambani safety scare: Trail results in Telegram channel ‘created in Tihar’

    A TELEGRAM channel of the purported terror group Jaish Ul Hind, which claimed duty for parking an SUV with gelatin sticks and a terror word exterior industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s Mumbai residence, was allegedly created in Delhi’s Tihar jail, a personal cyber company has discovered.
    Official sources instructed The Indian Express that the personal agency was requested by an investigating company to trace the placement of the telephone on which the Telegram channel was created.
    They didn’t determine the investigating company however stated the discovering has been communicated to the Delhi Police Special Cell by central companies.
    The terror scare case is being investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) whereas the loss of life of the car proprietor and the alleged theft of the car earlier than it was discovered exterior Ambani’s residence on February 25 are being probed by Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS).

    According to a safety evaluation report ready by the personal cyber agency, the Telegram channel was created by the TOR community, which is used to entry the darkish internet, from a SIM card in a cell gadget that was positioned “near/in Tihar jail”. The darkish internet is part of the Internet that may solely be accessed by nameless networks like TOR and never conventional engines like google.
    The report, which lists the cell quantity by which the Internet was accessed, states that the channel was created round 3.20 pm on February 26. The message claiming duty for the safety scare exterior Antilia, the Ambani house in South Mumbai’s Carmichael Road, was posted on the Telegram channel late on February 27 evening.
    On February 28, one other group claiming to be Jaish Ul Hind posted a message on a unique Telegram channel claiming that the message was not put out by them and denying any function within the incident. The police suspect that this message was despatched from exterior the nation though they haven’t been capable of pin the placement.

    The message allegedly created in Tihar had claimed duty for parking the car exterior the residence, demanded cash from the Ambanis, and included a hyperlink for cost by cryptocurrency. The Mumbai police discovered that the hyperlink was not purposeful.
    The message had claimed that the incident was “only a trailer” and that “the big picture was yet to come”. The message acknowledged that “…the brother who placed the SUV near the Ambani house has reached the safe house”.

  • Mansukh Hiren dying: Maharashtra ATS registers homicide case towards unidentified individuals

    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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  • Antilia bomb scare: Car, gelatin sticks discovered close to Mukesh Ambani’s home despatched for forensic take a look at

    Image Source : ANI Antilia bomb scare: Car, gelatin sticks discovered close to Mukesh Ambani’s home despatched for forensic take a look at
    Mumbai Police have despatched for forensic evaluation of the automobile and gelatin sticks present in it close to industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence right here final month, officers stated on Sunday.

    The Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) at Kalina in Mumbai will test the automobile for any blood stain, hair or another clue to assist establish the one that drove it and people current within the automobile when it was parked close to Ambani’s residence, an official stated.

    The lab will submit its report back to police in every week, he stated.

    The automobile, a Scorpio, with 20 gelatin sticks inside was discovered close to ‘Antilia’, Ambani’s multi-storey residence in south Mumbai, on February 25. Police had stated the automobile was stolen from Airoli-Mulund Bridge on February 18.

    The automobile and the gelatin sticks have been despatched to the forensic lab on Friday, an FSL official stated.

    The lab will discover out what was the proportion of gelatin within the sticks, the official stated.

    The FSL, with the assistance of specialists, may even attempt to discover out if the chassis variety of the automobile was modified, to assist establish the true proprietor of the automobile and in whose identify it was registered, he stated.

    The forensic lab has taken the case on precedence and can submit its report in every week, the official stated.

    The FSL’s basic analytical division, and the DNA and physics departments will work on the case, he added.

    Automobile equipment vendor Mansukh Hiren (46), who was in possession of the automobile, was discovered useless in a creek in neighbouring Thane on Friday morning.

    Prior to his demise, Hiren had stated in an announcement recorded by police that when he was on the best way from his store in Thane to Crawford Market in south Mumbai for some work on February 17, the automobile’s steering obtained jammed.

    He left the automobile on service highway in Vikhroli and took a cab, he stated.

    After ending work, he met a buddy and returned to Thane in his automobile, he advised police. The subsequent day he discovered that the Scorpio was lacking and lodged a police grievance, Hiren had advised the media.

    While the police had maintained that Hiren owned the automobile, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh stated within the state Assembly on Friday that he was not the proprietor.

    The actual proprietor had handed it over to Hiren for some inside work, Deshmukh stated.

    The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has taken over the probe into the complete matter. The viscera of Hiren has additionally been despatched for forensic evaluation, police stated on Saturday.

    The post-mortem report of Hiren reserved the opinion on the reason for demise, officers earlier stated.

    ALSO READ: Antilia bomb scare case: Mansukh Hiren’s post-mortem saved ‘reserved’
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  • Antilia bomb scare case: Mansukh Hiren’s post-mortem saved ‘reserved’

    Image Source : INDIA TV Antilia bomb scare case: Mansukh Hiren’s post-mortem saved ‘reserved’
    The post-mortem on the physique of businessman Mansukh Hiren — whose physique was fished out of the Thane Creek marshes — was accomplished right here early on Saturday, police officers mentioned.

    However, the post-mortem report, findings and opinion of the four-member medical crew, has been saved in reserve whereas his viscera has been preserved for forensic evaluation, mentioned Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone-I) Avinash Ambure.

    Hiren shot into the limelight after his stolen SUV Scorpio with 20 gelatin sticks and a purported typewritten menace word was discovered exterior Antilia — the residence of industrialist and Reliance Industries Ltd. Chairman Mukesh Ambani, on Feb. 25.

    Hiren’s physique is prone to be handed over to his household round midday at their residence in Vikas Palms constructing in Charai space of town.

    The case has been handed over to the Anti Terrorist Squad, the Thane police because the SRPF deployed tight safety exterior the Hirens’ residence since earlier within the day.

    The Opposition BJP in Maharashtra has demanded a probe by the CBI or NIA, whereas his household, together with spouse Vimala, has rejected the ‘suicide by drowning’ concept declaring that Hiren was a superb swimmer.

    ALSO READ: Antilia bomb scare case: Mansukh Hiren’s spouse says he went to satisfy crime department officer Tawde
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  • Letter taking duty for automotive close to Ambani’s home appears to be a hoax: police

    A letter within the title of `Jaish Ul Hind’ claiming duty for parking a automobile with explosives close to industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s home right here seems to be a hoax, the Mumbai police stated on Tuesday.
    The letter, posted on messaging app Telegram on Sunday, additionally demanded cost in crypto foreign money and supplied a hyperlink to a webpage for depositing it.
    On the identical night, one other letter posted by a bunch claiming to be the `actual’ Jaish Ul Hind stated it had not posted the primary message and it had nothing to do with the automotive discovered close to Ambani’s home.
    Officials of the Mumbai Crime Branch throughout their probe discovered that the hyperlink in first letter didn’t result in any webpage.

    Investigators suspect that the letter was merely a prank, a senior police official stated.

    A Scorpio with gelatin sticks was discovered parked on Carmichael Road close to ‘Antilia’, the multi-storey residence of Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, on Thursday night.

  • Mukesh Ambani is now world’s eighth richest particular person – Check his whole wealth

    Image Source : FILE PHOTO/PTI Mukesh Ambani’s rank within the earlier Hurun Global Rich List was ninth.
    Reliance Industries (RIL) Chairman Mukesh Ambani is now the eighth richest particular person on the planet with a fortune of $83 billion, in line with the Hurun Global Rich List 2021.
    Ambani’s wealth elevated 24 per cent on a year-on-year foundation on the again of a surge within the worth of energy-to-telecom large RIL.
    “India’s largest exporter, Reliance accounts for 8 per cent of the country’s exports and 5 per cent of India’s total revenues from customs and excise duty. Reliance is planning a calculated shift to renewable energy and has decided to venture into the battery-making business ahead of the electric vehicle boom,” stated the Hurun assertion.
    His rank within the earlier Hurun Global Rich List was ninth.
    ALSO READ: Car laden with gelatin sticks discovered deserted close to Mukesh Ambani’s Antilia residence

    Among the nations, India rose to 3rd spot with 177 billionaires, 40 greater than final yr.
    The Hurun assertion stated that Mumbai is by far the billionaire capital with 61 billionaires within the metropolis, adopted by New Delhi with 40. The common age was 66. There are 32 extra billionaires of Indian origin, residing exterior of India, led by L.N. Mittal of ArcelorMittal in London.
    Among different Indians, Gautam Adani and household was on the forty eighth place among the many prime 100 billionaires. Adani noticed his wealth nearly double to $32 billion, on the again of Adani Green Energy rising to a $20 billion valuation, it famous.
    The richest particular person on the planet is Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk with a web value of $197 billion. Musk’s wealth grew over three-fold in 2020.
    Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was on the second spot with a 35 per cent improve in his wealth to $189 billion.
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  • Spectrum Auction: Rs 77K-crore bids for 4G airwaves exceed govt expectations

    The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) managed to mop up Rs 77,146 crore on the primary day of auctions of spectrum for 4G airwaves, as towards its expectations of Rs 45,000 crore, Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad mentioned on Monday.
    The DoT expects upfront fee between Rs 12,000 crore and Rs 13,000 crore for this and the subsequent monetary 12 months from the three personal telecom gamers — Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea — that bid for the airwaves this time, Prasad mentioned. This is towards the federal government’s personal estimates of Rs 6,000-7,000 crore within the present fiscal.
    Of the 4 rounds, there was 80 per cent bidding exercise within the first two rounds, which elevated to 90 per cent within the subsequent two rounds. The authorities expects two extra rounds of bidding on Tuesday. As per the norms, the spectrum offered shall be legitimate for 20 years. For the auctions this time, the federal government has placed on provide frequencies within the 700, 800, 900, 1,800, 2,100, 2,300, and a pair of,500 MHz bands. A complete 2,251 MHz of spectrum for a reserve value of Rs 3.92 lakh crore are up for bids.
    On Monday, the federal government obtained bids within the 800,900, 1,800, 2,100, 2,300 MHz bands whereas no bids had been obtained within the 700 MHz and the two,500 MHz bands. Government officers, nonetheless, mentioned that value of excessive base value 700 MHz band and the truth that it can be utilized in 5G companies might be the explanations the spectrum in that band remained unsold.
    “If we exclude the 700 and 2500 MHz bands, the bidding in the rest of the bands represents 60 per cent of spectrum put to auction,” Telecom Secretary Anshu Prakash mentioned.
    Compared to 7 bidders in 2016, auctions this time had solely three bidders, which positioned bids for 37 per cent of the bids on provide by amount and 19 per cent by worth. Among all spectrum bands that had been offered Monday, about 65 per cent of the airwaves had been offered within the 800 MHz spectrum, whereas about 89 per cent of spectrum on provide was offered within the 2,300 MHz band. In the opposite bands, the three personal telcos bid for 38 per cent within the 900 MHz, 41 per cent within the 1,800 MHz and 9 per cent within the 2,100 MHz spectrum bands. The bidding within the 800 MHz spectrum represents 50 per cent of the whole airwaves offered on Monday, DoT officers mentioned.

    The unsold spectrum within the 700 and a pair of,500 MHz shall be despatched again to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India for a contemporary reference, DoT officers mentioned, however didn’t touch upon whether or not the federal government can be open to decreasing the worth. In the absence of any public sale for 5G airwaves, most consultants had anticipated the public sale to be subdued. Having collected practically Rs 77,000 crore, authorities officers mentioned the auctions had exceeded their estimates and would fetch in some extra on Tuesday. “We will be coming out with details on 5G trials, real time testing and other details very soon,” a senior DoT official mentioned.

  • Aaj Ki Baat LIVE | Threatening letter for Mukesh Ambani, faux quantity plates discovered from deserted automobile

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  • Reliance’s proposed enterprise reorganisation credit score impartial: Fitch

    Image Source : PTI Reliance’s proposed enterprise reorganisation credit score impartial: Fitch
    The proposed reorganisation plan by Reliance Industries Ltd to switch its refining, advertising and petrochemical (oil-to-chemicals) companies to a wholly-owned subsidiary is a step in the direction of facilitating participation by strategic traders within the unit, Fitch Ratings mentioned on Tuesday. The reorganisation of the enterprise in Reliance O2C Limited (O2C) “will have a neutral impact on RIL’s credit metrics and rating,” it mentioned in an announcement.
    The switch can be on a “slump sale basis”, topic to attaining the requisite approvals.
    The consideration for the switch can be within the type of long-term interest-bearing debt of USD 25 billion to be issued by O2C to RIL; RIL’s exterior debt is proposed to stay with RIL solely.
    “As RIL moves its oil refining, petrochemical and 51 per cent stake in a fuel retail subsidiary – among other businesses – to O2C, it will continue to hold businesses like textiles and upstream oil and gas, and will act as an incubator for new growth businesses,” Fitch mentioned.
    The proposed reorganisation, it mentioned, eases the formation of strategic partnerships and stake gross sales to potential traders focussed on investments in oil-to-chemicals companies.
    RIL has been in ongoing discussions with Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) to promote a minority 20 per cent stake in its O2C companies, which, if profitable, ought to result in additional deleveraging of RIL.

    “Following the reorganisation, the risk of any cash-flow subordination should be mitigated by RIL’s significant majority control in its key subsidiaries along with its strong liquidity, minimal external debt at the subsidiaries’ levels, and overall low consolidated leverage position,” Fitch mentioned.
    RIL holds 67 per cent in its digital companies and 85 per cent in retail enterprise subsidiaries and goals to take care of a major majority stake in O2C, which supplies vital management and entry to money flows generated by these companies.
    Long-dated loans issued by O2C to RIL, as a part of the reorganisation, will present an environment friendly mechanism to upstream money generated from O2C to RIL.
    Furthermore, RIL plans to retain the vast majority of the prevailing money of USD 30.2 billion (as of end-December 2020) on the guardian degree, thereby supporting liquidity.
    The money stability has benefited from the proceeds of Rs 1.52 lakh crore (USD 20.8 billion) from the sale of a 33 per cent stake in digital companies, Rs 47,265 crore (USD 6.5 billion) from the sale of a ten per cent stake in its retail subsidiaries and a part of the proceeds from RIL’s Rs 53,124 crore rights situation.
    “We do not expect any change in RIL’s consolidated adjusted net leverage, which is approaching zero amid declining capex. We expect RIL’s liquidity at the parent level to remain strong,” it mentioned.
    This could be assisted additional by money upstreaming by way of curiosity and debt repayments on long-term loans from O2C along with potential dividends from its giant subsidiaries. 
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