‘No corporate rivalry behind Ambani chopper case’

Patil told reporters,”So it is nothing of that sort and the police is heading towards the correct conclusion”.

The Anil Ambani Group has alleged that business rivals may be behind an “attempt to murder” the industrialist by trying to sabotage his helicopter.

Mumbai Police Joint Commissioner Rakesh Maria and Additional DGP (Railway Police) K P Raghuvanshi said on Tuesday night that Borge’s death was a case of suicide. Maria also said the motorman and the guard of a fast local saw the victim cross the track even when the train was fast approaching.

According to GRP sources,the letter recovered from Borge’s person said some “Reliance” people came to see him and questioned him but he did not say anything and that he also felt they will do something to him. It was not clear to which the Reliance group he was referring to.

Borge’s letter also said he had done nothing wrong and that the investigations into the alleged sabotage was going on the right track and that the Crime Branch will do a fair job,they said.

Borge was among the first persons to have spotted the fuel cap of Ambani’s Bell-412 helicopter open on Thursday last and on inspection found pebbles and gravel inside,one day before he was scheduled to go to neighbouring Navi Mumbai.

Chopper sabotage: ADAG cancels Airworks contract

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group said it has cancelled the maintenance contract of its three choppers with aviation services provider Airworks Engineering India following the alleged sabotage of one of Ambani’s helicopters.

“We have cancelled our MRO (Maintenance,Repair and Overhaul) contract with Airworks with immediate effect,” Reliance spokesperson said on Wednesday.

ADA group firm – Reliance Transport and Travels – had an agreement with Airworks for the maintenance,repair and overhaul of its three Bell-412 choppers.

Last Friday,Captain R N Joshi,a senior pilot with Reliance Transport and Travels had filed a complaint with the Mumbai police alleging sabotage and an attempt to murder Anil Ambani after one of the choppers was found with pebbles and gravel in the fuel tank.

When contacted,Airworks Engineering India Director Ravi Menon said that the company had no information so far in this regard.

“We have so far not received any information about this (cancellation of contract) from the company (ADAG),” Menon said.

Bharat Borge,the man who spotted the pebbles in the fuel tank of the industrialist’s helicopter was found dead on a railway track in a Mumbai suburb with a suicide note in his pocket.