Two get bail in Ambani chopper sabotage case

The two accused- Uday Warekar,32,and Palraj Thewar,38,had informed the court of the mysterious death of Anil Kotian,a technician who had also been on the chopper.

On April 28 Bharat Borge,who was the first to find mud and pebbles in Ambani’s helicopter,died under mysterious circumstances. All four were Air Works India Engineering Pvt Ltd employees,the company in charge of the chopper’s maintenance .

Warekar and Thewar were arrested on May 3 this year and booked under the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against Safety of Civil Aviation (SUAASCA) Act along with provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code. A special SUAASCA court had rejected their bail plea on August 26 after which they moved the high court.

Some pebbles and mud were found in the combined gear box of a Bell 412,a seven-seater helicopter,owned by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group on April 23.

Warekar and Thewar,in their bail application,stated that they had entered the chopper only for cleaning it and were not skilled technicians who could have opened the gear box.