MUMBAI, July 16 -- 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 discharge, the court was only required to determine whether the material disclosed a prima facie case, not whether it was sufficient to secure conviction. "This is not the stage at which truth, veracity and effect of prosecution evidence is to be judged meticulously," the judge observed; the prosecution's material had to be accepted as true while deciding if charges should be framed, he said. The case against Waze arises from three interlinked FIRs from February-March 2021. The first FIR, triggered by Thane-based auto parts dealer Mansukh Hiran's complaint about his Mahindra Scorpio being stolen, was registered on February 18. On February 25, the vehicle was found parked outside Antilia, with 20 gelatin sticks and a threat letter, triggering a second FIR. Hiran went missing on March 4 after allegedly leaving home to meet a police officer; his body was recovered from a creek in Thane the next morning. The third FIR was registered on March 7 after his wife, Vimala Hiran, complained to the Anti-Terrorism Squad regarding alleged foul play leading to his death. The central government transferred all three cases to the NIA. Waze was arrested in March 2021, later suspended. He is in judicial custody at Taloja....