Mumbai. Income Tax Department officials raided the house of former Mumbai police officer Pradeep Sharma. Initial reports say that IT officials searched the residence of Pradeep Sharma in Mumbai’s Andheri area in connection with a tax evasion case. Sharma, popularly known as the “encounter specialist”, was earlier arrested in the sensational Mansukh Hiran murder case.
The SUV laden with gelatin and carrying death threats against the Ambani family was found abandoned near the Antilia building on February 25, 2021, and the vehicle owner Hiran was found dead in Thane Creek on March 5. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which took over the investigation from Maharashtra Police and arrested Sharma in June 2021, argued that he had allegedly conspired with another dismissed policeman Sachin Waze to eliminate Hiran , who was considered the “weak link” in the entire conspiracy. Terrorize the Ambani family.
Apart from raiding Sharma’s house, IT officials also searched the residence of former Maharashtra MLA and businessman Ghanshyam Dubey. In January last year, Dubey was booked by the Uttar Pradesh Police for grabbing a piece of land using fake documents. A case was registered against Dubey, a resident of Bhadohi in Uttar Pradesh, his driver Hari Prasad and the former sub-registrar of Bhadohi tehsil.
