Bollywood Megastar’s Son Detained With Drugs On Cruise Ship From Mumbai To Goa; Cocaine, Hashish And MD Seized
A Bollywood celebrity’s son was amongst 10 folks detained throughout a drug bust by a workforce of Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) on a cruise ship off Mumbai coast on Saturday night time, high sources instructed News18. The NCB sleuths, who raided Cordelia cruise after it departed from Mumbai, seized medicine corresponding to cocaine, cannabis and MD and located the actor’s son in possession of medication.
The event, which is certain to ship shockwaves by way of the movie fraternity, has been confirmed to News18 by two sources straight conscious of the detention. The raids have been underway onboard the cruise on the time of publication of this report and additional particulars are awaited.
NCB sources from Mumbai instructed News18 that the ship was to depart on Saturday for Goa. The company’s Mumbai zonal director, Sameer Wankhede, acquired a tip-off, after which he and a workforce boarded the ship, posing as passengers. When the ship left Mumbai shores and was at mid-sea, a celebration started the place medicine have been consumed, mentioned sources.
The NCB officers, current on the ship, instantly began searches and apprehended these consuming medicine and seized the contraband.
The celebrity’s son has been detained however not arrested but. An arrest will rely on whether or not he had medicine in his possession and was consuming them. Officers have been screening chat messages on his telephone, mentioned NCB sources.
The entry price alone for the get together was within the vary of Rs 1 lakh, an officer instructed CNN-News18.
Simply final week, NCB’s Mumbai and Goa groups in a joint operation had arrested Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal’s companion Gabriella Demetriades’s brother from Goa in reference to a medication case. The bureau additionally seized charas from him, in accordance with sources. Gabriella’s brother Agisilaos Demetriades is of South African nationality and was arrested by the NCB final 12 months, too, as a part of its probe into the alleged drug use in Bollywood.
The NCB had launched a probe into the alleged drug use in Bollywood after the loss of life of actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June on the premise of WhatsApp chats involving medicine. The central company had earlier arrested Rajput’s good friend, actress Rhea Chakraborty, her brother Showik, some workers of the late Bollywood actor and some others beneath sections of the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. Rhea Chakraborty and another accused are at present out on bail.
In a separate incident, a couple of days in the past, the Directorate of Income Intelligence (DRI) had seized two transport containers on the Mundra Port, positioned in coastal Gujarat’s Kutch district, that had arrived from Afghanistan with a minimum of Rs 2,000 crore narcotics. Declared on the Customs desk as talcum powder, the DRI took a pattern of the product and had the powder analysed. It confirmed the presence of heroin, anticipated to be price a minimum of Rs 2,000 crore if no more on the worldwide market.
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Later, the DRI arrested two Afghan nationals in reference to the case. “They’ve been part of Afghanistan-Pakistan drug nexus for a while now. Moreover the duo, another individual is concerned, who dealt with all export and import. This individual had additionally booked the container,” sources had instructed CNN News18, including that the third accused left India for Afghanistan in June this 12 months.
(With Inputs from Herman Gomes and Ankur Sharma)
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