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Mumbai hostage case | Criminal writ petition filed seeking CBI probe into encounterThe petition names three officers Deputy Commissioner of Police and other officers.
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<div class="paragraphs"><p>View of the R A Studio, where a man held 19 persons including 17 teenage children hostage in Mumbai(L), the deceased kidnapper Rohit Arya.&nbsp;</p></div>

View of the R A Studio, where a man held 19 persons including 17 teenage children hostage in Mumbai(L), the deceased kidnapper Rohit Arya. 

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Mumbai: A criminal writ petition has been filed in the Bombay High Court on Monday seeking the probe into the Powai hostage crisis and encounter by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

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“A criminal writ petition has been filed before Bombay High Court seeking investigation in murder/fake encounter involving Rohit Arya Harolikar, registration of FIR and transfer to CBI,” Advocate Nitin Satpute said.

The petition names three officers Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone-X), Senior Police Inspector Jitendra Sonawane of Powai police station and Assistant Police Inspector Amol Waghmare who was part of the Anti-Terrorist Cell of the Powai police station.

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(Published 03 November 2025, 20:32 IST)