Shiv Sena leader and former 'encounter specialist' of Mumbai Police Pradeep Sharma, and Santosh Shelar and Anand Jadhav on Monday were remanded to judicial custody till 12th July into the cases of planting of explosive-laden SUV at Antilia and businessman Mansukh Hiren murder.
Earlier on June 17, Pradeep Sharma was arrested by the Mumbai police in connection with the Antilia bomb scare and Mansukh Hiren murder case and a raid was conducted at his residence.
The NIA action - the fifth involving a former policeman and the 8th so far - came in the sensational case of the SUV with 20 gelatin sticks and a threat note abandoned near Antilia, home of industrialist Mukesh Ambani, on February 25.
Soon after that, the police recovered the body of SUV owner Hiran from the Thane Creek marshes on March 5, as both the cases triggered a massive political row.
Sharma, a controversial former Senior Police Inspector and later a Shiv Sena activist, had been earlier interrogated by the NIA a couple of times in April in the same cases.
A few weeks ago NIA had arrested two other persons Santosh Atmaram Shelar and Anand Pandurang Jadhav from a slum pocket in Kurar village of Malad east for their roles in the twin cases.
Police sources said that after their custodial interrogation, more details of Sharma's involvement emerged led to Sharma's arrest.