Mumbai: Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) on Sunday arrested 2nd foreign national from Goregaon, in connection with drugs-on-cruise case and seized huge quantity of drugs from him.
Meanwhile, a drug peddler, Shivraj Ramdas, who has alleged links with Arbaaz Merchant, has been sent to NCB custody till tomorrow. According to NCB officials, Ramdas had been for a long time supplying drugs to Arbaaz Merchant, an accused in the Mumbai cruise party raid case.
On Saturday the NCB had recorded the statement of one of the Sharukh Khan's driver in connection with the seizure of drugs from a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast. However, the driver was released after hours of interrogation, an NCB senior official revealed on Sunday.
According to NCB, the raids were conducted in the Goregaon area of Mumbai last night. Drugs were also seized from the possession of the detained people, NCB said adding that it has also summoned film producer Imtiyaz Khatri and has asked him to appear before the agency on October 11.
Earlier the NCB had also arrested one more person named Shivraj Ramdas from Santacruz area on Friday night in connection with the seizure of drugs.
A total of 19 people, including a Nigerian national, have been arrested in the case related to the seizure of drugs following a raid at a party on a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast. A team of NCB led by Regional Director Sameer Wankhede had busted an alleged drugs party on the Cordelia Cruise ship which was on its way to Goa at mid-sea on October 2.
A Mumbai Magistrate court had on Thursday sent Aryan Khan and seven others to judicial custody for 14 days.
After Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik alleged that there exists a connection between the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Mumbai cruise party raid incident, former MP Kirit Somaiya on Sunday said he was not able to understand whether Malik is a spokesperson of Thackeray-Pawar or of a drug cartel.
"I am not able to understand whether Mr Nawab Malik is a spokesperson of Thackeray-Pawar or drug cartel. Yesterday the NCB issued a clarification stating that 14 were taken into the custody of which only eight were found guilty," said Somaiya.
