Aryan Khan bribery case: CBI summons ex-NCB officer Sameer Wankhede

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The CBI has summoned former NCB officer Sameer Wankhede for questioning on Thursday in reference to alleged demand of Rs 25 crore from celeb Shah Rukh Khan to not implicate his son Aryan inside the Cordelia cruise ship drug bust case, officers acknowledged.

Wankhede, who has been booked along with 4 others inside the case, is susceptible to appear sooner than the CBI crew in Mumbai, they acknowledged.

According to particulars of the FIR made public on Monday, unbiased witnesses Ok P Gosavi and Prabhakar Sail, now deceased, had been included by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) inside the Cordelia cruise ship drug raid on October 2, 2021, on the directions of Wankhede.

Gosavi, his aide Sanvile D’Souza and others had entered into the conspiracy to “extort Rs 25 crore” from the family members of Aryan, son of Shah Rukh Khan, by “threatening them of the accusation of offences of possession of narcotics substances.”

In order to let him stroll free, Gosavi and D’Souza negotiated the amount bringing all of it the way in which all the way down to Rs 18 crore and even collected a token of Rs 50 lakh and returned a part of the amount later, the FIR alleged.

Aryan Khan, who was formally arrested by the NCB on October 3, 2021, after a raid on the Cordelia cruise ship a day sooner than, was granted bail by the Bombay High Court on October 28 after he had spent 25 days in jail. But his establish was not included inside the file of accused inside the NCB price sheet for lack of proof.

The SET (specific enquiry crew) in its findings, now part of the FIR, acknowledged Aryan Khan and completely different suspects had been delivered to the NCB office in Gosavi’s private automobile on October 2, 2021.

Wankhede, inside the functionality of the moment supervisory officer, had directed to take Gosavi and Sail as a result of the unbiased witness inside the proceedings in the direction of the accused inside the drug bust case, the FIR states.

He had directed then NCB superintendent V V Singh to let Gosavi “handle the accused” whereas taking him to the NCB office, thereby “allowing a freehand” to him and others with a view to create a visual impression that Gosavi had the custody of the accused, it acknowledged.

“It appeared that the presence of the independent witness Gosavi around accused persons was created intentionally in such a manner so as to give an impression that Gosavi was an NCB personnel even though there were NCB personnel to handle the custody of the accused persons,” the FIR acknowledged.

Gosavi was allowed to be present inside the agency of the accused people and even allowed to return again to the NCB office after the raid and took the freedom to click on on selfies and recorded the voice phrase of an accused.

This place “allowed” Gosavi and D’Souza to enter proper right into a “conspiracy” with others to allegedly demand the bribe from Shah Rukh Khan, officers added.

NEW DELHI: The CBI has summoned former NCB officer Sameer Wankhede for questioning on Thursday in reference to alleged demand of Rs 25 crore from celeb Shah Rukh Khan to not implicate his son Aryan inside the Cordelia cruise ship drug bust case, officers acknowledged.

Wankhede, who has been booked along with 4 others inside the case, is susceptible to appear sooner than the CBI crew in Mumbai, they acknowledged.

According to particulars of the FIR made public on Monday, unbiased witnesses Ok P Gosavi and Prabhakar Sail, now deceased, had been included by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) inside the Cordelia cruise ship drug raid on October 2, 2021, on the directions of Wankhede.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Gosavi, his aide Sanvile D’Souza and others had entered into the conspiracy to “extort Rs 25 crore” from the family members of Aryan, son of Shah Rukh Khan, by “threatening them of the accusation of offences of possession of narcotics substances.”

In order to let him stroll free, Gosavi and D’Souza negotiated the amount bringing all of it the way in which all the way down to Rs 18 crore and even collected a token of Rs 50 lakh and returned a part of the amount later, the FIR alleged.

Aryan Khan, who was formally arrested by the NCB on October 3, 2021, after a raid on the Cordelia cruise ship a day sooner than, was granted bail by the Bombay High Court on October 28 after he had spent 25 days in jail. But his establish was not included inside the file of accused inside the NCB price sheet for lack of proof.

The SET (specific enquiry crew) in its findings, now part of the FIR, acknowledged Aryan Khan and completely different suspects had been delivered to the NCB office in Gosavi’s private automobile on October 2, 2021.

Wankhede, inside the functionality of the moment supervisory officer, had directed to take Gosavi and Sail as a result of the unbiased witness inside the proceedings in the direction of the accused inside the drug bust case, the FIR states.

He had directed then NCB superintendent V V Singh to let Gosavi “handle the accused” whereas taking him to the NCB office, thereby “allowing a freehand” to him and others with a view to create a visual impression that Gosavi had the custody of the accused, it acknowledged.

“It appeared that the presence of the independent witness Gosavi around accused persons was created intentionally in such a manner so as to give an impression that Gosavi was an NCB personnel even though there were NCB personnel to handle the custody of the accused persons,” the FIR acknowledged.

Gosavi was allowed to be present inside the agency of the accused people and even allowed to return again to the NCB office after the raid and took the freedom to click on on selfies and recorded the voice phrase of an accused.

This place “allowed” Gosavi and D’Souza to enter proper right into a “conspiracy” with others to allegedly demand the bribe from Shah Rukh Khan, officers added.