The Mumbai crime branch told a local court that the Enforcement Directorate, which has sought custody of dismissed police officer Sachin Waze to record his statement in a PMLA case involving former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh, is "sabotaging" the investigation by the police and that Waze is just a "puppet" in the hands of the Central agency.

After hearing the arguments of the ED and the crime branch, the court rejected the ED's plea. Waze was remanded in the custody of the crime branch till November 13 in connection with an extortion case registered at suburban Goregaon in Mumbai. The ED is probing a money laundering case based on the allegations levelled by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh against the then Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh. Waze is accused in that case.