New Delhi [India], August 23 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to former police officer Pradeep Sharma, arrested in connection with the Antilia bomb scare case and the killing of businessman Mansukh Hiran.

A bench of Justices AS Bopanna and PS Narasimha allowed Sharma's appeal against a Bombay High Court order denying bail.

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“We allow the appeal and grant bail to the appellant,” the bench said.

Earlier, the top court granted interim bail to Sharma to meet his ailing wife.

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Sharma was arrested in the case in June 2021 and was in judicial custody.

Sharma had approached the High Court last year challenging a February 2022 order of a special NIA court which had declined his bail plea.

On February 25, 2021, an explosives-laden SUV was found near Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani's residence 'Antilia' in south Mumbai.

Businessman Hiran, who was in possession of the SUV, was found dead in a creek in neighbouring Thane on March 5 last year.

Sharma, who along with police officers Daya Nayak, Vijay Salaskar and Ravindranath Angre was a member of the Mumbai police's encounter squad that killed over 300 criminals in numerous encounters, has been accused of helping his former colleague Waze in eliminating Mansukh Hiran. (ANI)

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