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  • Drugs-on-cruise case: Approach Pune court to record jailed Kiran Gosavi’s statement, NCB told

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: A special NDPS court in Mumbai on Monday disposed of a plea of the NCB to record the statement of private investigator and witness Kiran Gosavi in connection with the October 2 drug bust on board a cruise ship, and asked the probe agency to approach a court in Pune.

    Gosavi is currently in Yerwada jail in connection with cheating cases filed in some police stations of Pune, and the NCB told court that it wanted to record his statement under provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in order to file a charge sheet in the drugs-on-cruise case.

    The NCB told court the statements of panch witnesses would be part of the charge sheet and wanted directions to be given to the jail superintendent to allow the agency to examine, interrogate and record a voluntary statement.

    Special Judge V V Patil disposed of the NCB’s plea and directed it to approach a Pune court.

    A cruise ship off the coast of Mumbai was raided by the NCB on October 2 and several people were held allegedly with drugs, the accused including film superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan, who was later given bail by the Bombay High Court.

  • Pune Cantonment police take custody of NCB witness Kiran Gosavi in cheating case

    By PTI

    PUNE: The Pune Cantonment police have taken the custody of Kiran Gosavi, an NCB witness, in a 2020 cheating case, an official said on Thursday.

    Gosavi was on Tuesday sent to judicial custody in another 2018 cheating case registered against him at the Faraskhana police station in Maharashtra’s Pune city, for allegedly duping one Chinmay Deshmukh to the tune of Rs 3.09 lakh by promising him a job in the hotel industry in Malaysia.

    The case registered in the Cantonment police station pertains to Gosavi allegedly cheating three people to the tune of Rs 4 lakh under the pretext of providing them jobs in Malaysia in 2020.

    He was booked under sections 420 (cheating) and 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), an official earlier said.

    Officials of the Cantonment police station on Tuesday moved an application before the court seeking Gosavi’s custody, which was allowed by the court.

    On Thursday, the Cantonment police station’s senior inspector Ashok Kadam said, “We have arrested Gosavi in the case registered with our police station and he was produced before the court.

    He has been remanded to the police custody till November 17.

    ” Earlier, another cheating case was also lodged against Gosavi at Wanwadi police station in the city.

    Gosavi’s photos and videos with actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan went viral on social media after the NCB raided a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast on October 2.

    Aryan Khan was arrested in connection with the cruise drugs case on October 3.

    He was granted bail by the Bombay High Court on October 28.

  • Pune court sends Narcotics Control Bureau witness Kiran Gosavi to judicial custody in cheating case

    By ANI

    PUNE: Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) independent witness in the Mumbai cruise raid case Kiran Gosavi has been sent to judicial custody by a Pune court on Tuesday in a cheating case registered against him at Faraskhana police station. Gosavi, till now, was in police custody.

    On October 28, Gosavi, a key witness in the Mumbai cruise drugs case in which Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was arrested, was held by Pune City Police in connection with a cheating case of Rs 18 lakh in the year 2018.

    He had allegedly duped one Chinmay Deshmukh, promising to get him a job in Malaysia and collected Rs 18 lakh. Deshmukh filed a complaint against Gosavi in 2018 and a chargesheet was filed in the case. Since then, he has been on the run.

    On October 31, the Pune Police had lodged one more case against Gosavi at Wanowarie Police Station for threatening a victim and on conspiracy related sections. The Pune City Police informed that Gosavi has been booked under sections 420, 409, 506(2), 120(b) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and arms act 3(b) for threatening victim and conspiracy related sections.

  • Cruise drugs case: NCB questions Prabhakar Sail for over 10 hours; Gosavi’s police custody extended

    By PTI

    MUMBAI; Prabhakar Sail, an independent witness, was questioned for more than 10 hours by the NCB’s Delhi vigilance team, probing the pay-off allegations in the cruise drugs case in which actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan is an accused, an NCB official said on Tuesday.

    He has been called by the anti-drugs agency again on Tuesday, the official said.

    Earlier, after being summoned by the NCB on Sunday, Sail along with his lawyer reached the Central Reserve Police Force’s (CRPF) mess in suburban Bandra under police protection at 2 pm on Monday.

    He left the place, where the NCB team questioned him, around 12.20 am on Tuesday with his lawyer and did not speak to media persons present outside the premises.

    “We have called him again for questioning on Tuesday,” NCB’s Deputy Director General (northern region) Gyaneshwar Singh said.

    The NCB’s vigilance team, headed by Singh, who is also chief vigilance officer (CVO) of the federal anti-narcotics agency, had reached here from Delhi on Monday morning.

    Sail, who claims to be the bodyguard of NCB witness KP Gosavi, last month alleged in an affidavit that he had heard Gosavi discussing a Rs 25 crore pay-off deal after Aryan Khan was arrested by the NCB.

    Sail claimed that Gosavi had said Rs 8 crore of the deal money was to be given to NCB’s Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede.

    Sail’s allegations had prompted the NCB to order a vigilance inquiry against NCB officials and others.

    Wankhede had denied the allegations against him.

    Last month, a vigilance team led by Singh came to Mumbai to probe the allegations of extortion, but had then failed to record Sail’s statement.

    It had at that time recorded statements of eight persons, including Wankhede, and collected some important documents and recordings related to the cruise drugs case, an official earlier said.

    Meanwhile, a Pune court on Monday extended by one day the police custody of Kiran Gosavi, an NCB witness arrested in a cheating case registered against him in the city.

    Gosavi, one of the Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB) witnesses in the cruise drug sbust case of Mumbai, was produced before a Judicial Magistrate (First Class) after his current police remand period ended.

    Seeking three more days of custody, public prosecutor Varsha Aslekar told the court that the police have recovered Rs 1 lakh from Gosavi in the 2018 cheating case in which he had allegedly duped one Chinmay Deshmukh to the tune of Rs 3.09 lakh by promising him a job in the hotel industry in Malaysia.

    “The custody was sought as police want to recover some data from his social media accounts. The accused (Gosavi) is not cooperating with the police,” Aslekar told the court.

    She added that police want to trace more women accused in the case, whose name had cropped up during the probe.

    After submissions by the prosecution, the magistrate extended the police custody of Gosavi by one day.

    This was the second time the court has extended the police custody of Gosavi, who was arrested last month.

    The case in which he has been arrested was registered at the Faraskhana police station here.

    Two more cases of cheating have been lodged against Gosavi in the city – at Cantonment and Wanwadi police stations.

    Gosavi’s photos and videos with actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan went viral on social media after the NCB’s raid on the cruise ship off the Mumbai coast on October 2.

    Aryan Khan, currently on bail, is one of the accused in the drugs case.

  • Pune police lodges another case against NCB witness Kiran Gosavi for threatening victim

    By ANI

    PUNE: Pune Police on Saturday lodged one more case against Kiran Gosavi, an NCB witness in the drugs-on-cruise case, at Wanowarie Police Station for threatening victim and conspiracy related sections.

    The Pune City Police informed that Gosavi has been booked under sections 420, 409, 506(2), 120(b) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and arms act 3(b) for threatening victim and conspiracy related sections.

    This is the third case lodged against him.

    Kiran Gosavi is already in police custody till November 5 in a similar case registered with Faraskhana Police Station of Pune city.

    Earlier on Saturday, a fresh FIR was registered under sections 420, 465 and 468 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Lashkar Police Station on the basis of complaint given by three victims, who were cheated by Gosavi on the pretext of giving them jobs.

    He was earlier booked under sections 419, 420 of the IPC along with relevant sections of the Information Technology (IT) Act.

    Gosavi, arrested by Pune City Police on charges of cheating, has been sent to police custody for eight days by a city court.

    He was arrested from the Katraj area of the city in the early hours of October 28 in connection with a cheating case of Rs 18 lakh.

    He has also been booked by the Pune police at Kelwa Police station in Palghar for fraud on October 18 this year. As per the police, he had duped lakhs of rupees from people on the pretext of sending them abroad for jobs.

  • Aryan Khan case witness, wanted in 2018 cheating case, arrested in Pune

    By Express News Service

    MUMBAI: Pune Police on Thursday arrested Kiran Gosavi, an independent witness of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the drugs-on-cruise case, in connection with a 2018 cheating case registered against him here, a senior official said.

    Gosavi’s selfie and videos with Aryan Khan had gone viral on social media after the NCB’s raid on the cruise ship off the Mumbai coast on October 2. Later, Pune police issued a lookout circular against him on October 14 in 2018 cheating case.

    Gosavi had been moving to various locations in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Telangana while on the run. The accused was later produced in a Pune court which sent him to police custody for eight days.

    Pune police commissioner Amitabh Gupta said as Gosavi’s selfie went viral, it helped the cops to trace his locations before the arrest. “Gosavi did not surrender but was arrested by Pune crime branch in a cheating case of 2018. There are other cases against him as well. It took us 10 days to nab him. He was on run and moved from place to place in Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, and Maharashtra.

    Prabhakar Sail, the personal bodyguard of Gosavi, had earlier alleged that the latter took Rs 50 lakh from an individual after the raid at the cruise ship. He also said that Sameer Wankhede and his close associates had demanded Rs 25 crore from Shah Rukh Khan to release his son Aryan. Gosavi, however, had denied the allegations.

    The Pune police said on Thursday that there is no demand to hand over Gosavi to the Mumbai Police or any other agencies, including the NCB. Elaborating on the matter, Gupta said, “Kiran Gosavi was using ‘Sachin Patil’ as the alias to stay in hotels at various places. He used to tell people that he runs an NGO or a businessman into export and imports, etc,” he added.

    Before his arrest, Gosavi had shared his video message saying: “Prabhakar Sail is lying. All I want to request is that his CDR report be released. If my CDR report or chats can be released, CDR reports and chats of Sail and his brother should also be released. Only then everything will be clear.”

    Gosavi further said, “At least one minister or a leader of the Opposition in Maharashtra must stand with me”, adding that the politician(s) could “at least request the Mumbai Police to make public what I am demanding” (the CDR and chats of Prabhakar Sail).

  • Key witness in Aryan Khan case Kiran Gosavi sent to 8-day police custody

    By Express News Service

    MUMBAI: A Pune court on Thursday sent the key witness in the Aryan Khan case Kiran Gosavi to 8-day police custody after he was arrested in connection with a 2018 cheating case registered against him in the city.

    Gosavi’s selfie and videos with Aryan Khan had gone viral on social media after the NCB’s raid on the cruise ship off the Mumbai coast on October 2. Later, Pune police issued a lookout circular against him on October 14 in 2018 cheating case.

    Gosavi had been moving to various locations in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Telangana while on the run.

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    Pune police commissioner Amitabh Gupta said as Gosavi’s selfie went viral, it helped the cops to trace his locations before the arrest. “Gosavi did not surrender but was arrested by Pune crime branch in a cheating case of 2018. There are other cases against him as well. It took us 10 days to nab him. He was on run and moved from place to place in Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, and Maharashtra.

    Prabhakar Sail, the personal bodyguard of Gosavi, had earlier alleged that the latter took Rs 50 lakh from an individual after the raid at the cruise ship. He also said that Sameer Wankhede and his close associates had demanded Rs 25 crore from Shah Rukh Khan to release his son Aryan. Gosavi, however, had denied the allegations.

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    The Pune police said on Thursday that there is no demand to hand over Gosavi to the Mumbai Police or any other agencies, including the NCB. Elaborating on the matter, Gupta said, “Kiran Gosavi was using ‘Sachin Patil’ as the alias to stay in hotels at various places. He used to tell people that he runs an NGO or a businessman into export and imports, etc,” he added.

    Before his arrest, Gosavi had shared his video message saying: “Prabhakar Sail is lying. All I want to request is that his CDR report be released. If my CDR report or chats can be released, CDR reports and chats of Sail and his brother should also be released. Only then everything will be clear.”

    Gosavi further said, “At least one minister or a leader of the Opposition in Maharashtra must stand with me”, adding that the politician(s) could “at least request the Mumbai Police to make public what I am demanding” (the CDR and chats of Prabhakar Sail).

  • Drug-on-cruise case: NCB’s witness Kiran Gosavi detained in Pune

    By ANI

    PUNE: Kiran Gosavi, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) witness in the drug-on-cruise case involving Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan, has been detained in Pune.

    “Kiran Gosavi has been detained,” said Pune Police Commissioner Amitabh Gupta on Thursday.

    Gosavi has been detained by the Pune Police three days after he claimed he would surrender at a police station in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow.

    KP Gosavi, witness in Cruise in drug case has been detained by Pune Crime Branch. Gosavi was wanted in four different cases in Maharashtra. He was absconding since his sefie with Aryan Khan got viral. @NewIndianXpress @Sunday_Standard pic.twitter.com/qaxLauLqnY
    — Sudhir Suryawanshi (@ss_suryawanshi) October 28, 2021
    A case was registered against Gosavi with Faraskhana police station of Pune city on May 19, 2018, for allegedly committing fraud by promising a person a job in Malaysia by taking money.

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    However, he neither returned the money nor offered the job to the complainant. The accused was booked under sections 419, 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) along with relevant sections of the Intellectual Technology (IT) Act.

    Chargesheet was filed in the court as the accused was not found. He is still wanted in the case.

    Other than this, a case of fraud has also been registered against Gosavi at the Kelwa Police station in Palghar on October 18. As per the police, he had duped people of lakhs of rupees on the pretext of sending them abroad for jobs.

    Notably, Prabhakar Sail, who is the personal bodyguard of Kiran Gosavi and also a witness in the Mumbai cruise ship raid case has alleged that he took Rs 50 lakh from an individual after the raid at the cruise ship. 

  • Drug-on-cruise probe: Pune police arrest NCB witness Kiran Gosavi in cheating case

    By PTI

    PUNE: Pune police on Thursday arrested Kiran Gosavi, an independent witness of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the drugs-on-cruise case, in connection with a 2018 cheating case registered against him here in Maharashtra, a senior official said.

    He did not surrender before the police, the official said.

    Gosavi, said to be a “private investigator” whose photos and videos with actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan went viral on social media after the NCB’s raid on the cruise ship off the Mumbai coast on October 2, had been absconding.

    Recently, another witness in the drugs case, Prabhakar Sail, told media persons that he had overheard Gosavi telling one Sam D’Souza over the phone, after Aryan Khan was brought to the NCB office following the October 2 raid on the cruise ship, about a demand of Rs 25 crore and “to settle at Rs 18 crore as they have to give Rs eight crore to Sameer Wankhede”.

    Gosavi had on Monday refuted the extortion claims made by Sail, and said he will surrender before Lucknow police.

    On Thursday, Pune Commissioner of Police Amitabh Gupta said they have arrested Gosavi in connection with the 2018 cheating case registered against him.

    Gosavi was arrested from a lodge in Katraj area here by the Pune police at 3 am, and he will produced in a court following the due procedure, Gupta said in a press conference.

    “There was a case of cheating in Pune city in 2018 in which Gosavi was the main accused,” the official said.

    A charge sheet in the case was filed in 2019, he said.

    KP Gosavi, witness in Cruise in drug case has been detained by Pune Crime Branch. Gosavi was wanted in four different cases in Maharashtra. He was absconding since his sefie with Aryan Khan got viral. @NewIndianXpress @Sunday_Standard pic.twitter.com/qaxLauLqnY
    — Sudhir Suryawanshi (@ss_suryawanshi) October 28, 2021
    “Though Gosavi had earlier spoken about surrendering, he never did so,” Gupta said.

    He used to stay in hotels in the name of Sachin Patil, while claiming that he was working with an organisation, the official said.

    Gosavi was apparently present during the cruise ship raid and was seen at the NCB office when Aryan Khan was taken there.

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    His selfies and videos with Aryan Khan have appeared on social media.

    He has been called an “independent witness” by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which is probing the drugs case in which nearly 20 people were arrested.

    The Pune police had earlier arrested Gosavi’s assistant Sherbano Kureshi in connection with the cheating case, filed by one Chinmay Deshmukh who had alleged that Gosavi cheated him of Rs 3.09 lakh under the pretext of providing him a job in Malaysia in the hotel industry.

    Kureshi had received the money in her account.

    The case was registered at Faraskhana police station here.

    Earlier, a lookout circular was also issued by the police to prevent Gosavi from leaving the country.