Nita Ambani cancelled trip to Gujarat after explosives-laden SUV was found outside ‘Antilia’: Security staff tells NIA

A vehicle with gelatin sticks was recovered near the Ambanis’ home in February this year.

A scheduled visit of industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s wife Nita Ambani to Gujarat was cancelled after the recovery of an explosives-laden SUV outside their house ‘Antilia’ in South Mumbai in February this year, the security head of the residence has said in his statement to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The statement is part of a charge sheet filed last week by the NIA before a special court in Mumbai against dismissed police officer Sachin Vaze and nine others in connection with the recovery of the vehicle with gelatin sticks near Ambani’s residence on February 25 and the subsequent murder of businessman Mansukh Hiran. The residence’s security head said in his statement that after the vehicle with explosives and a threat letter were found, he immediately brought it to the notice of Mukesh Ambani. He also told the NIA that a scheduled visit of Nita Ambani on that day to Jamnagar in Gujarat was rescheduled and then cancelled on his and the zonal DCP’s advice.