Mumbai:A special team of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), probing allegations of extortion in the drugs-on-cruise case in which Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan is one of the accused, left for Delhi on Saturday without recording the statement of witness Prabhakar Sail, who had raised serious charges against Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede and others, an official said.
The five-member team, headed by NCB Deputy Director General (northern region) Gyaneshwar Singh, reached Mumbai on Wednesday to record statements after a departmental vigilance probe was ordered against Wankhede and others following Sail's claims that a pay off of Rs 25 crore was discussed in connection with the case of which Rs 8 crore was meant for Wankhede.
In the last three days, the NCB special team recorded statements of eight persons, including Wankhede, and collected some important documents and recordings related to the cruise drugs case, the official said.
However, the team failed to record the statements of Sail and K P Gosavi, another NCB witness in the cruise drugs case.
Sail, an independent witness in the drugs-on-cruise case, had claimed that he overheard Gosavi, arrested by the Pune Police in a cheating case on Thursday after remaining absconding, discussing the Rs 25 crore demand.
Sail used to work as a bodyguard for Gosavi, who claims to be a private detective.