MUMBAI, Nov. 6 -- The Bombay high court on Thursday struck down the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court order granting bail to Sachin Waze in connection with the case of the Antilia explosives scare and connected murder of Thane trader Mansukh Hiran. A bench of justices GS Kulkarni and Neela Gokhale allowed the appeal filed by NIA challenging the September 29 order in which the special court had granted bail to Waze. The case arises from three interconnected first information reports (FIRs) registered in Mumbai in February-March 2021. The first case was registered on February 18, 2021, based on Thane-based auto parts dealer Mansukh Hiran's complaint about his Scorpio SUV being stolen from Vikhroli. On February 25, the vehicle was found parked outside Antilia with 20 gelatine sticks and a letter allegedly threatening the Ambani family, which triggered the second FIR. The third FIR pertained to the subsequent alleged murder of Hiran, whose body was found in a creek near Mumbra on March 5, 2021. According to NIA, Waze himself had parked the SUV outside Antilia and given a contract to Pradip Sharma, his former encounter squad colleague, to kill Hiran, after the businessman refused to take the blame for planting the vehicle. Sharma allegedly arranged for four contract killers, while another police officer, inspector Sunil Mane, fetched Hiran from his house and handed him over to the contract killers, the agency claimed....