Mumbai: The Special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) court in Mumbai disposed of the Narcotics Control Bureau's (NCB) plea for recording statement of KP Gosavi, who is a witness in the drugs-on-cruise case, and was arrested by Pune police in a cheating case.
The court said that Gosavi is 'technically' in judicial custody of another court and the NCB should approach that court (Pune court) for it. Notably, a fresh case of cheating has been registered against Gosavi at Pune's Bhosari Police Station.
Three cases have already been registered against Gosavi in Pune city. Now, with this fresh case in Pimpri Chinchwad, he has now four cases registered against him
in the Pune district.
It may be recalled that Gosavi and his bodyguard Prabhakar Sail are independent witnesses to the seizure of contraband from Aryan Khan's friend Arbaaz Merchant.
Sail has alleged that Gosavi took Rs 50 lakh from an individual after the raid at the cruise ship.
It may be noted that Gosavi came to the limelight after his selfie with Aryan Khan went viral after NCB arrested the latter in the drug-on-cruise case.
An NCB team busted an alleged drugs party on the Cordelia Cruise ship, which was on its way to Goa at mid-sea on October 2. In all, 20 persons, including two Nigerian nationals, have been arrested so far in the case.
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