THE Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea filed by former IPS officer Pradeep Rameshwar Sharma against a High Court order rejecting his application for discharge in the 2021 Antilia bomb scare case and subsequent murder of businessman Mansukh Hiren. Sharma is chargesheeted for his alleged involvement in connection with Hiren’s murder case following the February 25, 2021 bomb scare near industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s multi-storey residence ‘Antilia’ in south Mumbai. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta told senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Sharma, that the court can understand bail or anticipatory bail but discharge in this case can’t be granted at this stage. Rohatgi submitted that the only allegation against him was that he met another former police officer, Sachin Waze in a conspiracy to eliminate Hiren.

 

“I have known him (Waze) since I was in force but I am nowhere involved in the murder of Mansukh Hiren,” he submitted. The bench, however, told Rohatgi that court was not inclined to interfere with the HC order. On March 10, the High Court dismissed an appeal of Sharma, 64, against rejection of his discharge application by the NIA special sessions court in Mumbai, in the Hiren murder case.