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

By way of PTI

NEW DELHI: The CBI has summoned former NCB officer Sameer Wankhede for wondering on Thursday in reference to alleged call for of Rs 25 crore from celebrity Shah Rukh Khan not to implicate his son Aryan within the Cordelia cruise send drug bust case, officers mentioned.

Wankhede, who has been booked at the side of 4 others within the case, is more likely to seem sooner than the CBI staff in Mumbai, they mentioned.

Consistent with main points of the FIR made public on Monday, unbiased witnesses Ok P Gosavi and Prabhakar Sail, now deceased, had been incorporated by way of the Narcotics Regulate Bureau (NCB) within the Cordelia cruise send drug raid on October 2, 2021, at the instructions of Wankhede.

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

To be able to let him stroll unfastened, Gosavi and D’Souza negotiated the volume bringing it all the way down to Rs 18 crore or even accrued a token of Rs 50 lakh and returned part of the volume later, the FIR alleged.

Aryan Khan, who used to be officially arrested by way of the NCB on October 3, 2021, after a raid at the Cordelia cruise send an afternoon sooner than, used to be granted bail by way of the Bombay Top Courtroom on October 28 after he had spent 25 days in prison. However his identify used to be no longer incorporated within the checklist of accused within the NCB rate sheet for loss of proof.

The SET (particular enquiry staff) in its findings, now a part of the FIR, mentioned Aryan Khan and different suspects had been dropped at the NCB place of job in Gosavi’s non-public automobile on October 2, 2021.

Wankhede, within the capability of the instant supervisory officer, had directed to take Gosavi and Sail because the unbiased witness within the lawsuits in opposition to the accused within the drug bust case, the FIR states.

He had directed then NCB superintendent V V Singh to let Gosavi “care for the accused” whilst taking him to the NCB place of job, thereby “permitting a freehand” to him and others with a view to create a visible influence that Gosavi had the custody of the accused, it mentioned.

“It gave the impression that the presence of the unbiased witness Gosavi round accused individuals used to be created deliberately in any such approach so that you could give an influence that Gosavi used to be an NCB body of workers even supposing there have been NCB body of workers to care for the custody of the accused individuals,” the FIR mentioned.

Gosavi used to be allowed to be provide within the corporate of the accused individuals or even allowed to return to the NCB place of job after the raid and took the liberty to click on selfies and recorded the voice word of an accused.

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

NEW DELHI: The CBI has summoned former NCB officer Sameer Wankhede for wondering on Thursday in reference to alleged call for of Rs 25 crore from celebrity Shah Rukh Khan not to implicate his son Aryan within the Cordelia cruise send drug bust case, officers mentioned.

Wankhede, who has been booked at the side of 4 others within the case, is more likely to seem sooner than the CBI staff in Mumbai, they mentioned.

Consistent with main points of the FIR made public on Monday, unbiased witnesses Ok P Gosavi and Prabhakar Sail, now deceased, had been incorporated by way of the Narcotics Regulate Bureau (NCB) within the Cordelia cruise send drug raid on October 2, 2021, at the instructions of Wankhede.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘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 members of the family of Aryan, son of Shah Rukh Khan, by way of “threatening them of the accusation of offences of ownership of narcotics ingredients.”

To be able to let him stroll unfastened, Gosavi and D’Souza negotiated the volume bringing it all the way down to Rs 18 crore or even accrued a token of Rs 50 lakh and returned part of the volume later, the FIR alleged.

Aryan Khan, who used to be officially arrested by way of the NCB on October 3, 2021, after a raid at the Cordelia cruise send an afternoon sooner than, used to be granted bail by way of the Bombay Top Courtroom on October 28 after he had spent 25 days in prison. However his identify used to be no longer incorporated within the checklist of accused within the NCB rate sheet for loss of proof.

The SET (particular enquiry staff) in its findings, now a part of the FIR, mentioned Aryan Khan and different suspects had been dropped at the NCB place of job in Gosavi’s non-public automobile on October 2, 2021.

Wankhede, within the capability of the instant supervisory officer, had directed to take Gosavi and Sail because the unbiased witness within the lawsuits in opposition to the accused within the drug bust case, the FIR states.

He had directed then NCB superintendent V V Singh to let Gosavi “care for the accused” whilst taking him to the NCB place of job, thereby “permitting a freehand” to him and others with a view to create a visible influence that Gosavi had the custody of the accused, it mentioned.

“It gave the impression that the presence of the unbiased witness Gosavi round accused individuals used to be created deliberately in any such approach so that you could give an influence that Gosavi used to be an NCB body of workers even supposing there have been NCB body of workers to care for the custody of the accused individuals,” the FIR mentioned.

Gosavi used to be allowed to be provide within the corporate of the accused individuals or even allowed to return to the NCB place of job after the raid and took the liberty to click on selfies and recorded the voice word of an accused.

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