India, Nov. 5 -- More than five years after an explosives-laden Scorpio was found parked outside industrialist Mukesh Ambani's residence, the trial in the 2021 Antilia bomb scare case entered the evidence stage on Wednesday, with the special NIA court recording the deposition of its first prosecution witness, police officer Asif Sande.

His cross-examination by advocate RB Mokashi, representing dismissed police officer Sachin Waze, brought out gaps in the first investigating officer's recollection of how the FIR was registered, the source of the initial information and the documentation of crucial forensic evidence.

Attached to the Gamdevi police station, which initially investigated the case, Sande was questioned about the circumstances...