SUV-Hiran case: NIA nets Mumbai Police's 'Dirty Harry' Pradeep Sharma

Mumbai, June 17 Netting the biggest catch so far in the sensational SUV planting-cum-businessman murder cases, the National Investigation Agency on Thursday arrested former high-profile 'encounter specialist' Pradeep Sharma - labelled as the 'Dirty Harry' of the Mumbai Police - along with two other key conspirators.

A court sent all three to NIA custody till June 28.

While Sharma, a professor-turned-cop-turned-Shiv Sena activist, was picked up from a location in Lonavala hillstation in Pune district, the other duo was rounded up from a Mumbai suburb.

The arrests were preceded by a surprise dawn swoop on Sharma's Andheri East residence from where the NIA and Mumbai Police teams recovered a revolver and collected various evidences like files, documents, laptops, etc.

On the revolver, Sharma told the court that it was a licensed weapon, but the license had expired and he had not renewed it, besides he was a former policeman, and if he was connected with the