Vigilance probe into extortion allegations DDG Gyaneshwar Singh reaches Mumbai NCB office
Mumbai Oct 27 PTI The NCBs Deputy Director General DDG-northern region Gyaneshwar Singh who is heading the departmental vigilance probe into allegations of extortion in the drugs-on-cruise case arrived at the agencys office here on Wednesday Singh reached the Narcotics Control Bureaus NCB office at Ballard Estate in south Mumbai at 1245 pm The NCB has ordered a vigilance inquiry into the claims made by a witness Prabhakar Sail in the cruise drugs case of an extortion bid of Rs 25 crore by some agency officials including its Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede to let off Aryan Khan the son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan The inquiry is being conducted by Gyaneshwar Singh who is also the chief vigilance officer of the federal anti-narcotics agency A large number of media persons were present outside the NCBs office when Singh arrived While getting out of his vehicle Singh said he will speak to media persons later It was not immediately clear whether he will record the statement of Wankhede on Wednesday Singh along with four other officers of the NCB landed in Mumbai from Delhi in the morning Wankhede who is leading the probe in the cruise drugs case visited the NCBs headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday and spent over two hours Sources earlier said the inquiry will also look at the aspect of K P Gosavi another NCB independent witness in the case being in close proximity of Aryan Khan after the raids and the procedures followed by the sleuths while entrusting custody of all the accused arrested on October 3 from the international cruise terminal in Mumbai Photos and videos of Gosavi with Aryan Khan have gone viral on social media and other news platforms The role of all the officers and witnesses involved in the case will be probed and it will be recorded if they followed the NCB manual and procedures mentioned in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances NDPS Act during such operations they said Wankhede on Sunday wrote to Mumbai Police commissioner Hemant Nagrale seeking protection from likely legal action being planned against him by unknown persons to falsely frame him concerning an alleged vigilance-related issue On Monday he failed to get any relief related to an affidavit on the sensational extortion claims made by Sail with a special court saying it cannot pass a blanket order barring courts from taking cognisance of the document PTI DC GK GK
Mumbai Oct 27 PTI The NCBs Deputy Director General DDG-northern region Gyaneshwar Singh who is heading the departmental vigilance probe into allegations of extortion in the drugs-on-cruise case arrived at the agencys office here on Wednesday Singh reached the Narcotics Control Bureaus NCB office at Ballard Estate in south Mumbai at 1245 pm The NCB has ordered a vigilance inquiry into the claims made by a witness Prabhakar Sail in the cruise drugs case of an extortion bid of Rs 25 crore by some agency officials including its Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede to let off Aryan Khan the son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan The inquiry is being conducted by Gyaneshwar Singh who is also the chief vigilance officer of the federal anti-narcotics agency A large number of media persons were present outside the NCBs office when Singh arrived While getting out of his vehicle Singh said he will speak to media persons later It was not immediately clear whether he will record the statement of Wankhede on Wednesday Singh along with four other officers of the NCB landed in Mumbai from Delhi in the morning Wankhede who is leading the probe in the cruise drugs case visited the NCBs headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday and spent over two hours Sources earlier said the inquiry will also look at the aspect of K P Gosavi another NCB independent witness in the case being in close proximity of Aryan Khan after the raids and the procedures followed by the sleuths while entrusting custody of all the accused arrested on October 3 from the international cruise terminal in Mumbai Photos and videos of Gosavi with Aryan Khan have gone viral on social media and other news platforms The role of all the officers and witnesses involved in the case will be probed and it will be recorded if they followed the NCB manual and procedures mentioned in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances NDPS Act during such operations they said Wankhede on Sunday wrote to Mumbai Police commissioner Hemant Nagrale seeking protection from likely legal action being planned against him by unknown persons to falsely frame him concerning an alleged vigilance-related issue On Monday he failed to get any relief related to an affidavit on the sensational extortion claims made by Sail with a special court saying it cannot pass a blanket order barring courts from taking cognisance of the document PTI DC GK GK
