Aryan Khan drugs case: NCB vigilance team to interrogate witness Kiran Gosavi in Pune tomorrow

The Narcotics Control Bureau’s vigilance team will arrive in Pune in Maharashtra on Wednesday to interrogate Kiran Gosavi in connection with the corruption allegations associated with the Aryan Khan drugs case.

Kiran Gosavi, an independent witness in the drugs case, is currently lodged at Yerwada jail in Pune in connection with cheating cases.

This is the vigilance team’s last round of investigation into the corruption allegations against NCB officials in the case before NCB’s Deputy Director General Gyaneshwar Singh submits his report to NCB Director General Satya Narayan Pradhan.

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WHAT IS ARYAN KHAN DRUGS CASE

Aryan Khan, the son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, was arrested in connection with a drug bust on a cruise ship in Mumbai in October last year. Several court hearings, lots of drama and 26 long days in custody later, the Bombay High Court granted him bail on October 28.

WHAT ARE THE CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS

In the course of the investigation into the drugs case, allegations of extortion were levelled against NCB official Sameer Wankhede, who had helmed the raid on the cruise ship in October.

Independent witness Prabhakar Sail, who died due to a heart attack last month, had stated in a notarised affidavit in October that Sameer Wankhede demanded Rs 25 crore for the release of Aryan Khan.

Prabhakar Sail, bodyguard to another witness Kiran Gosavi, also alleged that Gosavi was the one who had made the Rs 25 crore demand on Sameer Wankhede’s behalf.