In a major development, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday night arrested Mumbai cop Sachin Vaze in connection with the explosive laden SUV found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's home.
The arrest was made minutes before midnight, after the NIA grilled Vaze for over 12 hours since Saturday morning.
Earlier, a Thane Court had declined to grant interim bail to Vaze and posted his plea for a later date.
In a short update, an apparently disturbed Vaze has hinted at the possibility of ending his life as the case investigations get underway, saying: "I think the time to say goodbye to the world is coming closer."
"3rd March 2004. Fellow officers from the CID arrested me in a false case. That arrest is inconclusive till date. Sensing history is going to repeat," said Vaze on his status.
"My fellow officers are on to falsely trap me. There's a slight difference in the scenario. Then probably I had 17 years of hope, patience, life and service too," Vaze said.
The controversial police official added that now he would neither have 17 years of further life or service, "nor patience to live", and "I think the time to say goodbye to the world is coming closer".
Vaze has been facing heat in the death case of Mansukh Hiran. Hiran's wife had accused Vaze of involvement? in her husband's suspicious death. He was later shunted out of the Mumbai crime branch on Wednesday.
On February 25, a Scorpio was found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's house in south Mumbai with explosives and a threat letter inside. Hiran, who was in possession of the SUV, had claimed that it had been stolen a week earlier, but the case got murky when he was found dead in a creek in Thane on March 5.
Hiran's wife had claimed that her husband had given the SUV to Vaze in November, which the officer returned in the first week of February.
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), which is probing the case, has recorded Vaze's statement earlier this week, in which he has denied using the SUV that was in possession of Hiran.