New Delhi: Former NCB officer Sameer Wankhede didn’t seem for questioning earlier than the CBI on Thursday in reference to a case of alleged demand of Rs 25-crore bribe from famous person Shah Rukh Khan, officers stated. It is alleged that Wankhede and others demanded the bribe to not implicate his son Aryan Khan within the 2021 Cordelia cruise ship drug bust case. The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) didn’t identify Aryan Khan in its cost sheet within the case due to lack of proof in opposition to him. Wankhede had supplied to seem earlier than the company on Thursday after an FIR was registered in opposition to him and 4 others for allegedly making an attempt to extort the bribe from Shah Rukh Khan on the idea of a NCB inquiry referred to it by the house ministry, sources stated.
They stated Wankhede didn’t seem for questioning on Thursday and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will determine on the long run plan of action. The officers stated a particular enquiry group (SET) of the NCB had red-flagged a number of lapses and irregularities within the operation on the cruise ship carried out beneath the “monitoring” of Wankhede.
The NCB had alleged Okay P Gosavi and his aide Prabhakar Sail, now deceased, have been included as unbiased witnesses within the cruise ship raid on October 2, 2021, on the instructions of Wankhede. Gosavi, his aide Sanvile D’Souza and others had entered into the conspiracy to “extort of Rs 25 crore” from aryan’s members of the family by “threatening them of the accusation of offences of possession of narcotics substances”, the FIR within the case acknowledged.
In order to let him stroll free, Gosavi and D’Souza negotiated the quantity bringing it right down to Rs 18 crore and even collected a token of Rs 50 lakh and returned part of the quantity later, it stated. Aryan Khan, who was formally arrested by the NCB on October 3, 2021, after the raid on the cruise ship a day earlier than, was granted bail by the Bombay High Court on October 28 after he had spent 25 days in jail. But his identify was not included within the checklist of accused within the NCB cost sheet for lack of proof.
The SET in its findings, now a part of the FIR, stated Aryan Khan and different suspects have been delivered to the NCB workplace in Gosavi’s non-public car on October 2, 2021. Wankhede, within the capability of the speedy supervisory officer, had directed to take Gosavi and Sail as unbiased witnesses within the proceedings in opposition to the accused within the drug bust case, the FIR stated.
He had directed then NCB superintendent V V Singh to let Gosavi “handle the accused” whereas taking him to the NCB workplace, thereby “allowing a freehand” to him and others in an effort to create a visible impression that Gosavi had the custody of the accused, it stated.
“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 stated.
Gosavi was allowed to be current within the firm of the accused individuals, allowed to come back to the NCB workplace after the raid, and took the liberty to click on selfies and recorded the voice be aware of an accused, it stated. This place “allowed” Gosavi and D’Souza to enter into the “conspiracy” with others to allegedly demand the bribe from Shah Rukh Khan, based on officers.
