Uddhav Thackeray slams Centre for motion in opposition to medicine in Maharashtra

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday took a swipe on the Narcotics Control Bureau stating that whereas the company is recovering little amount of medication, the Maharashtra police have recovered medicine value Rs 150 crore.
“They call people caught sniffing a pinch of Ganja mafia. All they are interested in is to catch celebrities, get their pictures clicked and make some noise,” Uddhav Thackeray stated in his Dussehra speech whereas talking on the continuing medicine concern in Mumbai after the arrest of Bollywood celebrity Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan in reference to a cruise rave get together.
Without naming the narcotics company and the central authorities, Uddhav stated an try is being made to defame Maharashtra as a hub of medication. He additionally identified the medicine seizure on the Mundra port earlier final month when the DRI recovered narcotics from two containers from a cargo consignment. Speaking at Shiv Sena’s annual Dussehra rally at Shanmukhanand Hall in Mumbai, Thackeray requested, “Is it (drugs seizure) only happening in Maharashtra? Drugs worth crores was seized from Mundra Port.”
“Maharashtra is being looked at through a different lens. While we are being targeted, why are places like Uttar Pradesh, where rapes happen, not criticised as well?” Uddhav stated including that politicians who’ve now misplaced energy try to malign the state’s picture like ‘jilted lovers sometimes throw acid on a girl who spurns them’. “If you are calling the Mumbai Police ‘mafia’, then what will you term the UP Police?” Thackeray requested.
Ex-Mumbai Commissioner accused former Maha HM of asking controversial cop Sachin Vaze to gather Rs 100 crore per 30 days
Thackeray’s defence of the Mumbai Police got here months after allegations of graft had been levelled in opposition to the police power by the previous Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, who had alleged that former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh had requested controversial cop Sachin Vaze to gather Rs. 100 crore each month from bars, eating places and different institutions. Singh had made the allegations in a letter addressed to Maharashtra CM following which Anil Deshmukh needed to submit his resignation.
In the letter, Param Bir Singh stated, “Sachin Vaze, who was heading the Crime Intelligence Unit of the Crime Branch of Mumbai Police was called by Shri Anil Deshmukh, Hon’ble Home Minister, Maharashtra, to his residence several times in the last few months and repeatedly instructed to assist in the collection of funds for the Hon’ble Home Minister.”
Param Bir Singh additional said that workers members of Anil Deshmukh had been additionally current through the episode. He said, “The Hon’ble Home Minister expressed to Shri Sachin Vaze that he had a target to accumulate 100 crores a month. For achieving the aforesaid target, the Hon’ble Home Minister told Shri Sachin Vaze that there were about 1750 bars and restaurants and other establishments in Mumbai and if a sum of 2-3 lakhs was collected from each of them, a monthly collection of 40-50 crores was achievable.”
Aryan Khan drug case
On Sunday, October 3, Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant and plenty of different individuals had been detained from a luxurious cruise liner the place a rave get together was occurring. As per reviews, cocaine MD, charas and MDMA capsules had been discovered on Khan and others with him.
Khan has been remanded to NCB custody until the seventh of October. Arbaz Seth Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha had been additionally despatched to NCB custody together with Aryan. Later, they had been denied bail and despatched to 14 days of judicial custody. Khan’s bail order has been reserved by the courtroom until October 20.