A special court in Mumbai on Saturday refused to discharge former 'encounter specialist' police officer Pradeep Sharma from the cases related to the 2021 Antilia bomb scare incident and subsequent murder of businessman Mansukh Hiran, reported the PTI.

A M Patil, special judge for National Investigation Agency (NIA) cases, said that the court cannot, at this stage, accept Pradeep Sharma's contention that he was falsely implicated, according to the PTI.