Mumbai: Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Tuesday sought to know why the Narcotics Control Bureau was saving Kashif Khan, one of the organisers of the cruise party where the NCB conducted a raid last month, and what was his relationship with the anti-drugs agency officer Sameer Wankhede.
He claimed that Khan and NCB's Mumbai zonal director Wankhede have a "strong relationship".
Malik also tweeted purported chats of NCB witness K P Gosavi and an informer from Delhi, which, he said, shows they were planning to trap people who were going to attend the party on the Cordelia Cruise. This is Sameer Wankhede's private army, therefore he has a lot to answer, the NCP leader said.
K P Gosavi is the NCB's witness in the cruise drugs case in which at least 20 people, including actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan, were arrested following the raid on October 2.
Gosavi was last month arrested by the Maharashtra Police for alleged forgery.
According to Malik, the Delhi-based "informer" had told Gosavi about Khan and one White Dubey. "Why is Kashif Khan not being questioned? What is the relationship between Kashif Khan and Sameer Wankhede?" the minister asked.
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He said it is a known fact that the drugs business exists in Goa through the Russian mafia. Goa is also under the jurisdiction of NCB's Mumbai office, he noted.