In a major breakthrough in the twin SUV recovery-businessman murder cases, the NIA on Sunday recovered several pieces of evidence, including two CPUs of computers, two number plates of a vehicle with the same registration number, two DVRs and a laptop, from the bed of Mithi River in north-central Mumbai, which allegedly link the arrested police officer to the two sensational crimes.
After interrogating him for days on end, the the NIA took Sachin Vaze — who is a key accused in both the explosive laden SUV planting and subsequent alleged murder of businessman Mansukh Hiran to the bank of the Mithi River that flows off the Bandra-Kurla Complex, where the divers recovered various pieces of evidence from its bed.
The NIA, which had been looking into the inputs it had received that Vaze had destroyed several pieces of evidence in the twin cases it is investigating — deployed a team of swimmers and divers to recover two CPUs of computers, two number plates of a vehicle with the same registration number that read MH-20FP 1539, two DVRs and a laptop from the Mithi river bed, in the presence of Vaze.
