New Delhi: Mumbai Crime Branch on Monday claimed to have cracked the Anil Ambani chopper sabotage case.
Two employees of aircraft maintenance firm Air Works India Engineering Pvt Ltd were arrested for their alleged role in the sabotage of industrialist Anil Ambani's helicopter, police said. Air Works had the contract to maintain Ambani’s chopper.
"Our investigations show that the two have played a major role in the conspiracy leading to the tampering of the Bell 412 helicopter belonging to the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG)," a police official said.
The two arrested have been identified as Palraj Thevar and Uday Warekar, working as technical helpers in the company. They would be presented before a magistrate at the metropolitan court later on Monday, the official added.
Apart from the two, the police are also interrogating a former Air Works employee, Vijay Patankar, who was detained on Sunday.
Police have ruled out corporate rivalry as the cause of sabotage.
According to the police, Ambani's chopper sabotage incident took place after a dispute between the Air Works employees.
The Government Railway Police on Friday had given a clean chit to three Anil Ambani group officials in the Bharat Borge death case, the key witness in the alleged case to sabotage Ambani’s chopper.
Mechanic Bharat Borge's body was found near a railway track in Mumbai on April 28. The body was discovered at the Vile Parle crossing. A letter was also recovered from Borge. The letter, written in Marathi, was addressed to an investigating officer of the Crime Branch.
Borge wrote that he decided to write the letter after he saw one of the accused being beaten up and felt scared.
ADAG had written to Chief Minister Ashok Chavan demanding a Crime Branch inquiry into the conspiracy after a technician found pebbles and mud in the fuel tank of the chopper April 23 near the Air Works hangar in Santacruz Airport. It had alleged that business rivals may be behind the "attempt to murder" the industrialist by trying to sabotage his helicopter.
Air Works was maintaining the chopper under a contract with ADAG since 2006. Following the incident, ADAG cancelled its contract with Air Works last Wednesday.
Based on the information and other investigations, the Mumbai Police have surmised the exact timing and the location where the alleged sabotage of Ambani's 13-seater Bell 412 chopper took place, the evening before he was scheduled to fly in it.
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