NCB witness Kiran Gosavi arrested, wants Sail's call details to be released

The controversial private investigator Kiran Gosavi, seen with Aryan Khan in a widely circulated viral photo, has been arrested by the Pune police on Thursday. He has asked the officials to release the call and chat details of Prabhakar Sail, another witness in the drugs case.

Mumbai: Hours after the sensational arrest of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) witness Kiran Gosavi on Thursday, he has asked the officials to release the call and chat detail records of Prabhakar Sail, sources say. According to Faraskhana Police, he has been formally arrested and will be produced before Pune court today.

Prabhakar Sail — another witness in the drugs case — had alleged that he had overheard Gosavi telling one Sam D'Souza over the phone on the day Aryan Khan was brought to the NCB office on October 2 raid following the cruise ship raid, had demanded Rs 25 crore and "to settle at Rs 18 crore as they have to give Rs 8 crore to Sameer Wankhede".

However, Gosavi had rubbished the extortion claims made by Sail and said that he would surrender before the Lucknow police.

Gosavi hogged the limelight after he was seen accosting Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan at the NCB office in a selfie that went viral. He is an "independent witness" as per the NCB which is probing the drugs case in which nearly 20 people were arrested.

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City police commissioner Amitabh Gupta had said that a lookout notice was issued on October 14 that barred Gosavi from going outside the country. According to police, Gosavi is wanted in a case registered with Pune city police in 2018, wherein a charge sheet had been submitted to the court. He was missing since then and was only spotted during the cruise raid as an NCB witness.

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A case was registered against Gosavi in Pune on May 29, 2018, at Faraskhana police station for swindling Rs 3 lakh from a Pune youth on the promise of getting him a job in Malaysia. Later, he was declared absconding. He was booked under Sections 419, 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), along with other relevant Sections of the Information Technology (IT) Act.