NCB under fire: 5 drugs cases in a year, same witness in all, says report

Bollywood hotshot Shah Rukh Khan’s child Aryan Khan was on Saturday set free from Mumbai’s Arthur Road prison, where he was being held in a medications related case started by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). The government organization has now gone under new fire over how it is managing drug-selling charges, various cases identified with which were examined by it more than one year. A new media report asserted that not just has the NCB started upwards of five medications related cases in a year, however just one observer – Adil Fazal Usmani – has been created by the test office as ‘panch witness’ while examining every one of them.

The Indian Express announced that the NCB has been utilizing Usmani, who was among the 10 panch witnesses refered to by the organization in the voyage transport strike including Aryan Khan, in something like five medications related cases beginning around 2020. The paper revealed, refering to records seen by it, that Usmani, an occupant of the Jogeshwari region in Mumbai, was refered to by the NCB as a panch observer in these five cases – two of them in 2020 and three out of 2021. 

Aside from Usmani, two other panch witnesses refered to by the NCB allegedly incorporate Kiran Gosavi and Manish Bahubali. The Hindustan Times revealed recently that Gosavi was captured in Pune regarding a 2018 swindling case.

Prabhakar Sail, a guardian of NCB witness Kiran Gosavi, prior supposed that Gosavi took ₹50 lakh from a person after the assault at the journey transport. Gosavi notwithstanding, has denied the claims. Prominently, Sail, as well, has been recorded as one of the 10 panch observers in the Mumbai voyage case. The other six, aside from Usmani, Gosavi, Bahubali, and Sail are – Aparna Rane, Prakash Bahadur, Shoaib Faiz, Aubrey Gomez, Muzammil Ibrahim, and V Waigankar. A couple of these individuals, detailed the Indian Express, are safety faculty in the Cordelia journey extravagance liner from which Aryan Khan and others were held during the medications bust on October 2. 

A discussion ejected after Prabhakar Sail, one of the observers refered to by the NCB for the strike, documented an affirmation sworn before a public accountant on October 23 asserting that he caught his previous boss Kiran Gosavi, additionally an observer in the Aryan Khan-voyage drug case, conversing with an individual with regards to settling the matter for ₹18 crore and that measure of ₹8 crore would be needed to be paid to NCB official Sameer Wankhede.

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