Mumbai: The newly formed special investigation team (sitting) the operating unit of the Narcotics Bureau (NCB) arrived in Mumbai on Saturday, the day after taking over six cases, including the case of a drug bust cruise involving the son of Actor Rukh Khan was investigated by the Mumbai unit from the agency led by Sameer Wankhede.
The press release by NCB said that this was done on “administrative reasons” and no one had been removed from any case.
Wankhede, who had led Probe Arya Khan, also said he had not been removed from this case.
Sitting led by IPS officers Sanjay Singh told the media that his team would ask for help from the Mumbai unit.
Singh, IPS officer Cadre Batch Odisha 1996 Posted as Deputy Director General (Operation Unit) at the Delhi NCB office, arrived in Mumbai with his team and went to the NCB office at the Ballard Estate.
Six cases taken over by sitting was the case of Aryan Khan, the arrest of Armaan Kohli Actor, Nawab Nawab Nawab Minister Malik’s Case, and three other drug cases where the defendant was arrested from Mumbra, Jogeshwari and Dongri.
Singh and Wankhede visited Cordellia Cruise to be investigated in the afternoon.
Sitting formed on Friday.
NCB said that sitting will take over six cases that are said to have “national and international consequences”.
Malik has accused that the case of drug bust on shipping was fake and released pictures of witnesses who accompanied Aryan Khan to the NCB office and took Selfie with Khan.
One witness was a BJP and one more worker, K P Gosavi, was a criminal, he accused.
Gosavi, desirable in some cases, then captured by Pune police in the case of cheating.
Then, one of the witnesses, Prabhakar Sail, in a statement accused of a discussion of payment to be done to NCB officials, besides the meeting with manager Shah Rukh Khan, Pooja Dadlani, where money exchanged.
Another witness, Sam D’Souza, whose name knows in a sailing statement, said that Rs 50 Lakh was collected from Dadlani but returned after he realized that Gosavi was a cheat.
The country formed a sit to investigate extortion allegations.
Wankhede denied extortion allegations.
There are reports that the NCB alert team will visit Mumbai on Monday to probe into the case of roaming drugs.
Previous alert team had visited Mumbai on October 24 and went for New Delhi.
Malik said that he got an anonymous letter and sent it to the Top NCB brass.
The author, who claimed to work in the NCB office, quoted 26 cases and claimed that some people in these cases of false frames.