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  • Drugs-on-cruise case: Sunil Patil admits of knowing Sam D’souza, Gosavi, denies ‘mastermind’ allegations

    By ANI

    MUMBAI: Sunil Patil, whose name cropped up in corruption allegations against NCB officers, has admitted that he knew Sam D’souza, who is facing allegations of extortion in the drugs-on-cruise case, and later came in contact with Kiran Gosavi, an Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) witness in the case.

    However, he has denied allegations of being a ‘mastermind in the drugs-on-cruise conspiracy’ in which Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was arrested.

    “I did not know Kiran Gosavi, but I knew Sam D’souza because he had asked for some money a few days back. He had told me that he needs to give money to NCB to get his name out of one case. Later, he told me that he has paid Rs 25 lakhs to NCB and his name is now out of that case. So I was aware that he knew people in NCB,” Patil told ANI on Sunday.

    He further alleged that two BJP workers in Madhya Pradesh had given the tip on the cruise party to NCB.

    Patil said, “A few days before the cruise raid took place, I got a call from Neeraj Yadav and Dhaval Bhanusali, who are BJP workers from Madhya Pradesh, saying that they have got a tip about the Cordelia cruise ship party, and they asked for some contact in NCB. I told them that I have no contacts in NCB and I am not a tipper of NCB, but as I knew Sam D’souza. Thus, I gave Neeraj Yadav, Dhaval Bhanushali and Kiran Gosavi the contact details of Sam D’souza.”

    Patil also alleged that on October 2, the night NCB conducted a raid on the cruise off the Mumbai coast, Neeraj Yadav, Dhaval Bhanushali and Kiran Gosavi were present around the NCB office.

    “In the early hours of October 3 at around 2.30 am, Kiran Gosavi sent me a selfie with Aryan Khan and told me that Aryan Khan has been arrested. In the morning around 8.30 am, Sam D’souza told me that a deal has been struck of Rs 50 lakh and Kiran Gosavi has sent Prabhakar Sail (Goasavi’s bodyguard) to collect the money,” he said.

    “I was in Ahmedabad from October 1-4,” Patil added.

    Patil further claimed that he has chat records of Prabhakar Sail, in which he accepts that he is associated with Kiran Gosavi and was assigned the job of collecting the money.

    “A day after the raid at around 2:30 pm, I got a call from Sam D’souza that the deal has failed and now Pooja Dadlani, Shah Rukh Khan’s manager, has asked for the money to be returned. So I called Kiran Gosavi and I had a verbal altercation with him and I asked him to return the money if the work is not done,” he said.

    Patil also said that he avoided getting trapped in the mess, as he was already facing financial problems.

    “I did not want to be trapped in all this as I already had financial problems. I was in Ahmedabad all this while and after Prabhakar Sail gave his statement, I was not allowed to leave Ahmedabad. I was called to Delhi 3-4 days back and Dhaval Bhanushali and Neeraj Yadav beat me up and asked me to give a statement on camera but I refused and somehow fled from there and came here (Mumbai),” he said.

    Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mohit Kamboj was the first to bring up Sunil Patil’s name in the media alleging that he is closely associated with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders and conspired the drugs-on-cruise case.

    Kombaj had levelled allegations against Patil saying that he contacted Sam D’souza to connect Kiran Gosavi with NCB officers to furnish leads over the cruise party before the raids were conducted.

    Earlier, Sam D’souza in a video message had reiterated the allegations of the Kamboj claiming that Patil sent Kiran Gosavi to furnish leads about the cruise party.

  • Mumbai drugs-on-cruise case: HC rejects anticipatory bail plea of suspect Sam D’souza

    By ANI

    MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has rejected the anticipatory bail application of Sam D’souza, who is facing allegations of extortion in the drugs-on-cruise case.

    The vacation bench of Bombay High Court while hearing the plea on Wednesday asked him to approach Sessions Court instead.

    Earlier, Prabhakar Sail, a witness, alleged that a deal of Rs 18 crore was made for the release of Aryan Khan, son of Shah Rukh Khan. Sail had also named D’souza as a beneficiary.

    In D’Souza’s plea, he claimed that Kiran Gosavi, a witness of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the drug-on-cruise case, had taken Rs 50 lakh from Shah Rukh Khan’s manager Pooja Dadlani to get Aryan Khan released.

    Aryan, who was arrest on October 3, was recently granted bail after Bombay High Court issued a detailed bail order which stated that the accused should appear before NCB every Friday. He was also asked to surrender his passport.

    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. A total of 20 people, including two Nigerian nationals, have been arrested so far in the case.

  • Non-cognisable offence against NCB witness Sail as Palghar man accuses him of erroneously circulating his photo

    By PTI

    PALGHAR:  Police in Palghar district of Maharashtra have registered a non-cognisable offence against Prabhakar Sail, NCB’s independent witness in the cruise drugs case, for allegedly circulating a man’s photo to show that it was that of one Sam D’Souza, whose name has cropped up in the case, an official said on Friday.Sail had levelled allegation of extortion attempt by the officials of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the drugs seizure case involving Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan.Sail had alleged that he overheard K P Gosavi, another witness in the cruise ship raid case, talking to Sam D’Souza over the phone about a demand of Rs 25 crore, including Rs 8 crore for NCB’s zonal director Sameer Wankhede, to let off Aryan Khan arrested in the case.An official of Palghar police station said, “A non-cognisable offence has been registered under IPC sections 500 (punishment for defamation) and 501 ((printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory) against Sail based on a complaint filed by Hainik Bafna, a resident of Palghar.”In his complaint, Bafna alleged that Sail had misused his picture to portray him as one Sam D’Souza, he said.

  • Drugs-on-cruise case: Non-cognizable offence registered against Prabhakar Sail

    By ANI

    MUMBAI: Palghar Police on Friday registered a non-cognizable offence against Prabhakar Sail, an Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) witness in the drugs-on-cruise case, for allegedly misusing Hainik Bafna’s picture to portray him as Sam D’Souza.

    According to the police, Bafna, a resident of Palghar, had filed a complaint against Sail with Palghar Police.

    Earlier on Thursday, NCB’s Deputy Director General (Northern Region) Gyaneshwar Singh had written a letter to Mumbai Police Commissioner urging him to ask Sail to appear before Special Enquiry Team (SET) on Friday to record his statement and submit evidence.

    Singh is heading the Special Enquiry Team (SET) which has been constituted to probe allegations against NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede in the drugs-on-cruise case.

    Sail, who is the personal bodyguard of Kiran Gosavi and also a witness in the Mumbai cruise ship raid case, levelled allegations of corruption against Gosavi and Sameer Wankhede.

    Mumbai Police on Thursday said that on the night of October 27, they took Prabhakar Sail, a witness in the drugs-on-cruise case who has alleged payoff in the case, to different locations in Mumbai where, as he alleged, transfer of money and other alleged offences related to the case took place.

    An NCB team busted an alleged drugs party on the Cordelia Cruise ship which was on its way to Goa on October 2. A total of 20 people have been arrested in the case.