MUMBAI: Former encounter specialist and suspended Mumbai assistant police inspector, Sachin Waze who is currently in judicial custody over his alleged role in planting an explosives-laden vehicle outside industrialist Mukesh Ambani's Mumbai house Antilia, has been sacked from service. 

The Mumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale today issued the order for Waze's dismissal. In a statement from service citing constitutional provisions.

The suspension order which was also posted on tweeter by Mumbai police stated, "API Sachin Hindurao Waze has been dismissed from police service. The order has been issued today under Provision of 311(2)(B) Constitution of India by Commissioner of Police, Greater Mumbai."

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) that has been investigating the recovery of explosives (gelatin sticks) inside an abandoned SUV Scorpio near Antilia, had arrested Waze after unearthing incriminating evidence against him in the case.

Later the agency took over the investigation into the suspected murder of Mansukh Hiran who was the owner of the Scorpio. His body was found in mysterious condition in a creek a few days after the Antilia incident.

Waze had been reinstated in the Mumbai Police in June 2020 after remaining suspended for 17 years since 2003 over a case linked to the custodial death of a bomb blast accused Khwaja Yunus. During his career as an encounter specialist, he was involved in the killings of 63 alleged criminals.

He had been posted as the head of the Crime Intelligence Unit of the Mumbai Police when the explosives were found near the Ambani house.  

Mumbai's former commissioner Param Bir Singh's in a letter to Chief Uddhav Thackeray had said former home minister Anil Deshmukh had ordered Waze and other police officers to collect Rs 100 crores in extortion from Mumbai's restaurants and bars. 

Deshmukh was sacked as the home minister and later the Bombay High Court has ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to investigate allegations against Deshmukh.