NCP calls cruise drug bust involving Aryan Khan ‘fake’, questions BJP worker’s presence

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Mumbai: On Saturday evening, after the Narcotics Management Bureau raided a Goa-bound cruise ship, allegedly busting a rave occasion, movies of actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan and his pal Arbaaz Service provider being taken to the company’s workplace went viral.

On Sunday, as a selfie with Aryan Khan taken by a bald man — the identical individual seen escorting the Bollywood actor’s son to the NCB workplace — additionally went viral, the NCB launched an announcement saying that he wasn’t among the many company’s males.

The high-profile case took a political twist Wednesday. The Nationalist Congress Social gathering (NCP) alleged that not solely had been the 2 individuals seen dragging Aryan Khan and Arbaaz Service provider to the NCB workplace personal individuals, however considered one of them — the person seen with Arbaaz — can be a Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) functionary.

The NCP claimed that the identification of the person seen with Aryan within the selfie and the video is Okay.P. Gosavi, whereas the second individual is Manish Bhanushali, purportedly a “BJP vice-president”, who has been seen with senior occasion leaders akin to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister Amit Shah, and BJP President J.P. Nadda, amongst others, on a number of events. Talking to India In the present day, Bhanushali known as himself a BJP employee, and stated he was “only a witness” who was heading to the NCB workplace to signal as one.

Additional, the Sharad Pawar-led NCP raised suspicions that the entire raid was “faux”, and only a ploy by the BJP to defame the Maharashtra authorities and Mumbai’s movie business utilizing the NCB, a central company.

Nawab Malik, NCP Mumbai president and a Maharashtra cupboard minister Wednesday advised reporters, “After actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s loss of life final 12 months, firstly a suicide was being alleged to be a homicide. Then there was information that he was maybe killed due to medicine. That’s when the NCB’s zonal workplace in Mumbai got here into the limelight. Tales had been planted. There was an try to defame the movie business and one after the other numerous personalities can be summoned.”

“A notion was created that the complete Bollywood has change into a nexus for a drug racket. In the identical approach, on 3 October night, we began seeing information about an NCB raid on a cruise liner mid waters… For the reason that final one 12 months, the BJP has been defaming Maharashtra, Maharashtra authorities, Mumbai’s movie business and Bollywood, and the drama on 3 October is totally farzi (faux),” Malik added, alleging that the BJP is manipulating central companies utilizing its personal leaders and karyakartas (staff).

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‘One personal individual, one BJP functionary’

The NCP has requested the NCB to make clear on how two personal individuals got here to be related to the company’s raid, and had been seen escorting high-profile detainees akin to Aryan Khan and Arbaaz Service provider to its workplace.

“First NCB should make clear what’s the relation of Gosavi with NCB. If NCB says they (Gosavi and Bhanushali) aren’t its employees, then how had been they dealing with individuals alleged to have been in possession of medicine? Does the NCB have the correct to rent personal individuals and conduct a raid?” Malik stated.

The NCP chief additionally stated the occasion had gathered info on Bhanushali’s whereabouts over the previous few days from his social media actions, and that the chief was in Delhi and Gujarat just a few days earlier than being noticed in Mumbai on the time of the raid.

“On Twenty first (September) Manish Bhanushali was in Delhi, on Twenty second he was in Gandhinagar Mantralaya. He had conferences there until twenty ninth. The Twenty first-Twenty second date is essential as a result of there was an enormous drug consignment seized on the Mundra port (in Gujarat). Who was Manish Bhanushali assembly in Delhi? In Gujarat, which ministers did he meet?” Malik stated, including that Bhanushali’s social media profiles at the moment are locked.

“What was he doing within the Gujarat Mantralaya until twenty eighth? Then he got here to Mumbai, and on 1st October, he went for a gathering to Gujarat once more. Then on the third (October) you possibly can see him in Mumbai. The NCB is being utilized by the BJP to defame folks and is utilizing its personal leaders and karyakartas for it to focus on people who find themselves towards the occasion,” Malik alleged.

Nevertheless, chatting with India In the present day, Bhanushali stated, “We simply gave info. When the raid was over, we needed to signal as witnesses. The faces of all accused had been lined. Everybody left from there. The accused had been additionally there, NCB officers had been additionally there. All of us went (to the NCB workplace) collectively. It was a small area, so it appeared as if I used to be escorting him within the video, however that was not the case.”

NCP’s Malik stated photographs of the medicine that the NCB allegedly seized from the cruise liner and later leaked to reporters elevated suspicion of the entire raid being faux.

“These photographs aren’t from any cruise or terminal however from contained in the NCB zonal director’s cabin. Any seizure has a process that the panchnama be made on the place of the seizure, the fabric must be sealed and stored in a robust room. If it must be despatched for sampling, then it must be opened inside a Justice of the Peace’s cabin. These movies and photographs present that there was no seizure on the cruise,” Malik claimed.

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The BJP refuted allegations of the occasion intentionally attempting to malign the movie business’s picture by utilizing the NCB, and as an alternative, accused Malik of conspiring towards the drug management company due to a “battle of curiosity”.

BJP MLA Atul Bhatkhalkar advised ThePrint, “Nawab Malik is conspiring to malign the NCB as a result of the company had arrested his son-in-law in a raid and he needed to spend eight months behind bars.”

The NCB had arrested Sameer Khan, Malik’s son-in-law, in a drug case in January this 12 months. Khan was launched on bail final month.

On the allegations that BJP leaders had been concerned within the NCB’s raid on the cruise liner Saturday, Bhatkhalkar stated, “I don’t know who Manish Bhanushali is. The BJP is called an outfit with the very best cadre energy not simply within the nation, however in the entire world.”

He additional added, if Malik has any suspicions, he ought to get the Anti Narcotics Cell, which is below the state’s jurisdiction, to inquire. “I needn’t remind him that his occasion is within the authorities within the state and the house division can be along with his occasion. He can simply ask the Anti Narcotics Cell to inquire into his allegations. We’re not opposing that,” Bhakhalkar stated.

(Edited by Paramita Ghosh)

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