India, Oct. 1 -- A day after a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court granted bail to former Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze in the Antilia explosives scare and the related murder of Thane-based businessman Mansukh Hiran, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday stayed the order temporarily.

"Having heard learned ASG (additional solicitor general Anil C Singh), as also having perused the impugned order dated 29.09.2026, we are inclined to grant an ad-interim stay to the said order till the adjourned date of hearing," a division bench of justices Girish Kulkarni and Dr Neela Gokhale said and posted the matter for further hearing on October 7.

The NIA had moved the high court immediately after the special court granted Waze bail on...