India, July 15 -- A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Wednesday rejected suspended police officer Sachin Waze's application seeking discharge in the 2021 Antilia bomb scare cum murder case, holding that the prosecution had placed "more than sufficient material" on record to frame charges against him and proceed to trial.

Waze's 157-page discharge application pleaded "everything under the Sun"; "with a few lines more... (it) would have defeated Britannica Encyclopedia", special judge Chakor S Baviskar said in a strongly-worded order. Waze's discharge plea ultimately lacked merit, the judge said. At the discharge stage, the court was only required to determine whether the material disclosed a prima facie case, not whethe...