Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Sunday alleged that Narcotics Control Bureau’s Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede was part of a pla...
Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Sunday alleged that Narcotics Control Bureau’s Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede was part of a plan to kidnap Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan.
The Narcotics Control Bureau had detained Aryan Khan after a raid on a cruise ship off the coast of Mumbai on October 2. During the raid, the agency claimed to have seized 13 grams of cocaine, 5 grams of mephedrone, 21 grams of charas, 22 pills of MDMA (ecstasy) and Rs 1.3 lakh from the ship.
No drugs were recovered from Aryan Khan. But, investigators have alleged that he is part of a larger conspiracy to procure drugs from an international network. The 23-year-old spent over three weeks in prison before getting bail in the case.
At a press conference, Malik on Sunday said that Aryan Khan had not purchased the ticket for the cruise party. Aryan Khan was brought to the ship by his friends Pratik Gaba and Amir Furniturewala, he added.
The Nationalist Congress Party leader said this was a “matter of kidnapping and ransom”. He also alleged that Bhartiya Janata Party leader Mohit Kamboj was the mastermind of the plot and a partner of Wankhede in demanding ransom.
Malik claimed that Wankhede had met Kamboj at a graveyard in suburban Oshiwara on...
