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  • NCB seeks voice sample of Nawab Malik’s son-in-law in drugs case

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: The Narcotics Control Bureau has moved a special court here seeking permission to obtain voice samples of NCP leader Nawab Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan and two others in a drugs case.

    Sameer Khan, along with two others, was arrested in the case in January this year but the special court for Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act cases granted him bail in September, observing that there was no strong evidence against him.

    Special public prosecutor Atul Sarpande said new material has emerged in the case, hence the NCB filed this application.

    The anti-drugs agency had earlier claimed the accused had conspired to procure and sell 194.6 kilograms of ganja (cannabis).

    It had charged Khan and others for dealing with ‘commercial quantities’ of the drug, a crime that carries a maximum punishment of 20 years.

    Khan, in his bail plea, had relied on reports of the forensic lab which said 11 of the 18 samples sent to it could not be detected as cannabis.

    The NCB had claimed most of the drugs were seized from co-accused Karan Sejnani, who it said was involved in business transactions with Khan.

  • Drug busts: After verbal feud, Maharashtra leaders begin legal fight

    By Express News Service

    MUMBAI:  Family members of Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik and former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis are busy sending defamation notices against each other as the senior leaders have been engaged in a bitter war of words over recent drug busts. 

    Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan has sent a legal notice to Fadnavis, seeking a compensation of Rs 5 crore for defaming his family.  

    The NCB had arrested Sameer Khan on January 13 in connection with an alleged drug case. He was released on bail later.

    Fadnavis had earlier said,  “…Now Malik’s son-in-law was found with drugs in his possession”, adding that “if narcotics are found in the house of a person, then what will their party be”.

    Challenging Fadnavis’ charges, the legal notice said the charge sheet filed by the NCB does not support even a single allegation levelled by the BJP leader.

    “The panchnama clearly says the house was searched and no contraband was found. But from which source you obtained such frivolous and baseless report is better known to you,” said the legal notice.

    Amruta Devendra Fadnavis, wife of the BJP leader, immediately sent a legal notice to Malik for “tarnishing the image of her family” through his alleged defamatory tweets.

    “Mr Nawab Malik shared a series of defamatory tweets including some pictures! Here is the Notice of Defamation,” Amruta tweeted.

    The notice from the side of Fadnavis came after certain tweets of Malik had claimed connection between Amruta and alleged drug peddler Jagdeep Rana.

  • Tit-for-tat? NCB to move Bombay HC seeking bail cancellation of Nawab Malik’s son-in-law

    By ANI

    MUMBAI: Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) will move Bombay High Court seeking cancellation of bail of Sameer Khan, the son-in-law of Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik for violating bail conditions in a drug case.

    “We will move for bail cancellation Sameer Khan in Bombay HC for violating bail conditions,” a top NCB official told ANI.

    Notably, Nawab Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan was earlier arrested on January 13 this year by NCB in connection with a drug case. Khan was granted bail on September 27, after eight months in prison.

    Meanwhile, the NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede and Nawab Malik are at loggerheads over the investigation of the drugs-on-cruise in Mumbai.

    Malik has shared the birth certificate of Wankhede on Twitter saying “Sameer Dawood Wankhede’s fraud started from here.”

    Following this Wankhede said he will fight Malik legally.

    “I have come to know about a fresh tweet by Nawab Malik about my birth certificate. This is an ugly attempt to bring in all the things which are not connected to all this. My mother was a Muslim so does he want to bring my dead mother in all this? To verify my caste and background, anyone can go to my native place and verify my lineage from my great grandfather. But he should not spread this filth like this. I will fight all this legally and don’t want to comment much on it outside court,” Wankhede told ANI.

    Earlier, the Maharashtra minister had put an allegation of extortion on Wankhede while challenging the NCB official that he will lose his job within a year.

    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 Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan, have been arrested so far in the case.

  • NCP leader Nawab Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan gets bail in drug-related case

    By Express News Service

    MUMBAI: Maharashtra minister and chief spokesperson of NCP Nawab Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan got bail after nine months in drug-related case on Monday.

    Sameer Khan was arrested on January 9 by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in connection with a drugs case. A special court granted bail to him on Monday. The special court also granted bail to co-accused Rahila Furniturewala and Karan Sejnani on furnishing personal bonds of Rs 1 lakh, Rs 50,000 and Rs 40,000, respectively.

    Khan was arrested by NCB following the arrest of Sejnani, from whom the central agency claimed that a commercial quantity of contraband was recovered.

    Khan had sought bail in February, but it was rejected by the special court since the probe was underway. In July, the NCB filed a charge sheet after which Khan and others filed for bail again.

    The NCB had said that the accused conspired to procure, sell, purchase and transport 194.6 kg of ganja and six CBD sprays. Chemical analysis reports annexed to the charge sheet state that of the 18 samples sent for forensic probe, eight were negative.

    The NCB claimed that the reports showed the presence of over 85 kg of cannabis, which is a commercial quantity.

    During the bail hearing, the defence lawyers for the accused contested this claim, arguing that nine of the samples contained constituents of cannabis which do not fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and therefore the accused were entitled to bail.

    Khan in his bail plea had argued that the case against him was “completely frivolous” and apart from 7.5 grams of ganja allegedly recovered from Sejnani, none of the 194.6 kgs claimed to have been seized in the case was contraband under the NDPS Act.

    Khan’s plea also said that based on the report, the the only charge sustained in the case is for dealing with a small quantity of ganja which has a maximum punishment of one year. It sought for him to be released under provisions of section 436A of the Criminal Procedure Code since he has spent more than half the maximum term in jail since his arrest in January.

  • Drugs case: Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik’s son-in-law sent to 14-day judicial custody

    By ANI
    MUMBAI: Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan was on Monday been sent to 14-day judicial custody in connection with a drug case. Khan who was arrested on January 13 was taken for medical examination before being produced before Esplanade Court here today.

    He was arrested by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in connection with a drug case and his remand was supposed to end today. The prosecutor had said that NCB had found evidence from Sameer regarding some chats indicating that he was planning to mix CBD oil and other chemicals with marijuana.

    “We have come to know that there were multiple transactions between Karan and Sameer Khan which was much more than Rs 20,000. He was involved in the commercial activity of drug so we have invoked 27A of the NDPS Act (Punishment for financing illicit traffic and harbouring offenders) act against him,” NCB prosecutor said.

    In a tweet on January 14, Malik said, “Nobody is above the law and it should be applied without any discrimination. Law will take its due course and justice will prevail. I respect and have immense faith in our judiciary.”

  • Drugs probe: NCB searches home of Maharashtra minister’s son-in-law

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: The Narcotics Control Bureau on Thursday conducted searches at the city-based residence of Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan, who has been arrested in a drugs case, an NCB official said.

    Khan was taken into custody by the NCB on Wednesday over his alleged role in the drugs case in which three persons, including British national Karan Sajnani and three others, were arrested here last week after seizure 200 kg of drugs, an official said.

    A team of the NCB on Thursday conducted searches at Khan’s residence in suburban Bandra. No seizure was made from his house, the official said.

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    Later, the NCB team also conducted searches in Juhu area, he said, adding that the operation is still on.

    Khan was arrested by the NCB on Wednesday after several hours of questioning.

    He had been summoned by the agency after it found an alleged online transaction of Rs 20,000 between him and one of the accused in the drugs case in which British national Karan Sajnani and two others were arrested last week, sources said.

    The agency on Tuesday arrested Ramkumar Tiwari, one of the owners of the famous ‘Muchhad Paanwala’ shop in Mumbai which is frequented by celebrities, in the same case.

    Tiwari was granted bail by a court here on Wednesday.

    Last week, the NCB arrested three persons, including Sajnani, and claimed to have seized 200 kg of drugs from Khar and Bandra areas here.

    The drugs included ganja, imported contraband like ‘OG Kush’ (a strain of cannabis indica), and curated marijuana, some of which had been sourced from the US, an official earlier said.

  • Nobody above law, says Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik after kin’s arrest by NCB

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: Maharashtra cabinet minister Nawab Malik, whose son-in-law has been arrested by the NCB in a drugs case, on Thursday said nobody is above law and it should be applied without any discrimination.

    In a post on Twitter, the NCP leader, without mentioning any incident, said the law will take its due course and justice will prevail.

    Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) here on Wednesday in a drugs case after he was questioned by the agency.

    Khan was summoned by the NCB after it found an alleged online transaction of Rs 20,000 between him and one of the accused in the drugs case in which British national Karan Sajnani and two others were arrested last week, sources earlier said.

    “Nobody is above the law and it should be applied without any discrimination. Law will take its due course and justice will prevail,” Malik tweeted.

    “I respect and have immense faith in our judiciary,” the minority affairs minister added.

  • Maharashtra cabinet minister Nawab Malik’s son-in-law arrested by NCB in drugs case

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Wednesday arrested the son-in-law of Maharashtra cabinet minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik in a drugs case.

    Sameer Khan, Malik’s son-in-law, was called for questioning at the NCB’s Ballard Estate office in South Mumbai in the morning.

    Khan reached the office at 10 am and was arrested after several hours of questioning, an official of the central agency said.

    He had been summoned by the agency after it found an alleged online transaction of Rs 20,000 between him and one of the accused in the drugs case in which British national Karan Sajnani and two others were arrested last week, sources said.

    The agency on Tuesday arrested Ramkumar Tiwari, one of the owners of the famous ‘Muchhad Paanwala’ shop in Mumbai which is frequented by celebrities, in the same case.

    Last week, the NCB arrested three persons including Sajnani and claimed to have seized 200 kg of drugs from Khar and Bandra areas here.

    The drugs included ganja, imported contraband like ‘OG Kush’ (a strain of cannabis indica), and curated marijuana, some of which had been sourced from the US, an official said.