Three days after claiming to surrender at a police station in Uttar Pradesh's capital Lucknow, a controversial "independent witness" of the narcotics agency Kiran Gosavi, probing the Mumbai drugs-on-cruise case was detained in Pune.
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Kiran Gosavi, who was given a lookout notice in 2018 in connection with a cheating case, claimed he wanted to surrender to the Uttar Pradesh Police because he felt "threatened" in Maharashtra. Mr Gosavi's assertions that he tried to surrender to the Lucknow Police were later denied by the Lucknow Police.
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Mr Gosavi, a private investigator, was present at the cruise ship raid earlier this month and afterwards with Aryan Khan at the Narcotics Control Bureau or NCB headquarters. At both locations, his selfies and videos with Aryan Khan proved that he had complete access to Shah Rukh Khan's son.
It sparked doubts about the anti-drugs agency's inquiry from Maharashtra's ruling alliance. Several senior officials questioned why a "independent witness" from the agency should be present for the raid and take photographs with the high-profile accused.
A guy claiming to be Mr Gosavi's personal bodyguard made bribery accusations against him on Sunday.
Mr Gosavi had a telephone communication regarding payoffs with one Sam D'Souza, according to another witness in the case, Prabhakar Sail. Mr Sail said he overheard Mr Gosavi suggest they should ask for a "bomb 25 crore" and then settle for 18 crore, with 8 crore going to Sameer Wankhede, the NCB's zonal officer in charge of the probe.
"Sail is a liar. I'd want to request that his CDR (call detail record) be made public. My CDR report or chat should be released, along with Sail's and his brother's CDR reports, and then everything will be revealed. At least one minister or opposition leader from Maharashtra should support me. In a video statement released today, Mr Gosavi said, "At the very least, they should tell the Mumbai Police to do what I'm seeking (release the CDR and chat of Sail).”
On Monday, Mr. Wankhede arrived in Delhi. He denied being called by any government agency. His travel to the capital comes amid a debate over charges of payback and a verbal spat with Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik.
Mr Malik has accused the BJP and NCB of "spreading terrorism" in Mumbai by alleging that the case involving the alleged discovery of narcotics from the cruise ship is "fake." "The fabrication began from here," Mr Malik alleged, tweeting a snapshot of a document relating to Mr Wankhede's birth.