Aryan Khan drugs case: Sam D’Souza appears before Mumbai Police SIT, new claims surfaces – Times of India

Independent witness Prabhakar Sail last month claimed that he had overheard NCB witness K P Gosavi discussing a pay-off deal of Rs 25 crore with D’Souza over the phone after Aryan Khan was arrested by the NCB.

The Mumbai Police later constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the allegations of extortion against NCB officials in connection with the case.

On Monday, D’Souza reached the SIT’s office in south Mumbai along with his lawyer Pankaj Jadhav at around 12.45 pm to record his statement, a police official said. The NCB’s vigilance team, which is also probing the pay-off allegations in the cruise drugs case, has already recorded D’Souza’s statement.

Meanwhile, reportedly some new claims have surfaced from Sam told NDTV that he wasn’t aware of the alleged ₹ 25-crore deal. Asserting he was only meant to set up the meeting between Gosavi and Shah Rukh Khan’s manager, Pooja Dadlani, he claimed that Gosavi contacted him a day before the drugs raid on the cruise ship — on October 1 — through Sunil Patil, a “power broker” with influential connections.

Claiming that he helped to set up a face-to-face meeting between Gosavi and Dadlani to set up, he reportedly alleged Gosavi impersonated as an NCB officer while Prabhakar Sail’s number was saved on his number as NCB Zonal Directorate Sameer Wankhede. He further said that Sunil Patil, Prabhakar Sail and Gosavi as frauds and added that Gosavi already took 50 lakh from SRK’s manager, as per reports.

Earlier, D’Souza in his pre-arrest bail plea, filed before the Bombay High Court, claimed that Gosavi had taken Rs 50 lakh from Shah Rukh Khan’s manager Pooja Dadlani to get Aryan Khan released.

The amount was returned after the NCB arrested Aryan Khan in the case on October 3, the application said.

D’Souza also claimed that Gosavi had told him that no narcotic drug was found on Aryan Khan and he was, in fact, innocent.