Mumbai : Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik on Thursday lashed out at the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) alleging collusion between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the agency in the Aryan Khan drug case.
In the press conference the leader said that that the cruise drug bust which led to the arrest of Aryan Khan, the son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan seems like a fake case. “The pictures as evidence released by the NCB in the Aryan Khan case were taken from NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede’s office. These pictures were not from the spot and this shows that there was no seizure on the cruise. It seems a fake case for publicity,” Malik said.
A photo of Aryan Khan with an unknown person had gone viral, claiming on social media that he was an NCB official. The NCB, however, later clarified that he was not with the anti-drug agency. Malik, has now alleged, that the ‘bald’ person in the photograph is a BJP member. In another video, a person named Manish Bhanushali is seen with Aryan at the NCB office. The NCP leader claimed Bhanushali, too, is a BJP worker.
On October 2, an NCB team busted an alleged drugs party on the Cordelia Cruise ship which was on its way to Goa at mid-sea. Eight persons including Aryan Khan were detained for questioning by the NCB allegedly in connection with the drug seizure on the cruise ship. A day ago, a Mumbai court ordered Aryan Khan and others to be remanded in NCB’s custody until October 7.
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