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By Munish Chandra Pandey: Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan was extorted and threatened to pay Rs 25 crore to save his son Aryan Khan in a drugs case, as per the FIR filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Independent witness KP Gosavi, whose selfie with Aryan Khan went viral, tried to extort Rs 25 crore from Shah Rukh Khan allegedly on behalf of the then NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede who has been named as accused number one in the CBI’s FIR.
The CBI has named Sameer Wankhede, a 2008 batch IRS officer, V.V Singh, Superintendent with NCB, and Ashish Ranjan, the then investigative officer in the Aryan Khan drugs case as accused in the case along with KP Gosavi and his associate D’Souza.
Wankhede and others allegedly demanded Rs 25 crore bribe for not framing Aryan Khan in the drug bust case, according to the CBI.
“Sameer Wankhede as then Zonal Director of NCB and in the capacity of the immediate supervisory officer, had directed to take KP Gosavi and Prabhakar Sail as the independent witness in the proceedings against the accused and directed V.V. Singh to let KP Gosavi handle the accused while taking him to NCB office and thereby allowing a free hand to KP Gosavi and others in order to create such a visual impression of KP Gosavi having the custody of the accused and escorting and dragging him towards NCB Mumbai office,” the CBI FIR read.
‘KP GOSAVI AS WITNESS CREATED INTENTIONALLY’
According to the FIR, the inquiry conducted by the Special Enquiry Team (SET) of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has revealed that the accused persons (including Aryan Khan) were brought to the NCB office in a private vehicle of the independent witness K P Gosavi.
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“It appeared that the presence of the independent witness KP Gosavi around accused persons was created intentionally in such a manner so as to give an impression that KP Gosavi was an NCB personnel even though there were NCB personnel to handle the custody of the accused persons. The independent witness KP Gosavi was allowed to be present in the company of accused persons and even allowed to come to the NCB office after the raid which is against the norms for an independent witness,” the CBI FIR read.
KP Gosavi’s selfie with Aryan Khan went viral which he had clicked while the latter was under detention of NCB officials. CBI FIR has also alleged that K P Gosavi had the freedom, clicked selfies and recorded the voice note of Aryan Khan.
“It was this position that allowed KP Gosavi and his aide Sanvile D’Souza amongst others to enter into the conspiracy to extort an amount of Rs 25 crore from the family members of the alleged ‘accused’, Aryan Khan by threatening them of the accusation of offences of possession of Narcotics substances. This amount was finally settled for Rs 18 crore. A token amount of Rs 50 lakh as bribe money was also taken by KP Gosavi and his aide Sanvile D’Souza but later a part of this amount of Rs 50 lakh bribe money was returned back by them,” the FIR stated.
The internal enquires by NCB have revealed allegations of criminal misconduct and corrupt practices of Sameer Wankhede and Ashish Ranjan independently, which could not sufficiently justify their acquired assets as per their declared income.
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‘NO EXPLANATION BY WANKHEDE ON HIS FOREIGN VISITS’
The FIR also states that the Vigilance Branch of the NCB has noted that Sameer Wankhede has not properly explained his foreign visits and had apparently mis-declared the expenditure on his foreign travels.
“He has also not declared the source of his foreign visits properly. It was also found that Sameer Wankhede has indulged himself in sale and purchase of expensive wrist watches with a private entity, Viral Rajan, without intimating the department (present or parent),” added the FIR.
The case was registered against Wankhede, following a preliminary inquiry by the CBI on the basis of a vigilance report. During the viligance inquiry, it was found that Sameer Wankhede amassed assets through corruption. The CBI also raided 30 premises, including house and office of Sameer Wankhede, in connection with this case after lodging the FIR.
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