NEW DELHI: Aaftab Poonawalla, the youth who killed his live-in girlfriend and cut up her body into 35 pieces had boasted to another woman whom he dated (while he was living with Shraddha Walkar) that he had great contacts in the underground drugs peddling network in Delhi and Mumbai and he could get or procure the best Malana Cream and pure Manali marijuana in the world at the best or cheapest possible rates.

Aftab had not only boasted that he consumed drugs, but also openly claimed that he was procuring drugs in larger quantities and then selling them to his friends at a decent margin. Due to this business, he was able to get “pure stuff” and also pay for his own consumption. The name and identify of the woman has been withheld upon her request and insistence.

According to media reports, Aftab Poonawalla, accepted that he killed his girlfriend Shraddha Walkar, during questioning while a polygraph test was conducted on him on Wednesday. He also took a narco-analysis test at a Rohini hospital on Thursday, as part of the ongoing investigation into the murder of Shraddha Walkar by the Delhi police.

According to sources, Aftab also admitted to dumping the body parts of Sharddha in the jungle after the murder and that he planned to kill her long back, in fact he conspired to kill her while in Mumbai itself, as he had begun to hate he. He claimed he wanted to be free and have sex with as many women as he wanted, without being committed or bound to any single woman.

According to model Ishika Borah, Aftab Poonawalla had even boasted to her about his drug connections and his ability to procure the best Malana Cream and Manali marijuana, but she had brushed aside his boastful rantings as those of an intoxicated or mad man.

MUMBAI: Shah Rukh Khan’s manager Pooja Dadlani has sought the advice of her lawyers regarding the summons issued to her by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Narcotics Control Bureau as well as that of the Mumbai Police.

Sources said that Dadlani was hesitant to visit the two different teams without speaking to her lawyers and had detailed and in-depth discussions with her legal team on the subject.

So far Dadlani has received summons both from the NCB as well as from the Mumbai police and both teams are carrying out independent investigation into the accusations levelled by NCB witness Kiran Gosavi’s bodyguard cum driver Prabhakar Sail and Sam D’Souza into the alleged extortion attempt.

MUMBAI: Kiran P Gosavi, the Narcotics Control Bureau panch witness (of the selfie fame) in the Aryan Khan drugs case, posed as an NCB official, when he first represented himself to Shahrukh Khan’s manager Pooja Dadlani, officials said.

However when the others including Sam D’Souza, Vijay Pagare and Sunil Patil were brought in the loop, it became clear that Gosavi was not part of the NCB team.

Further when his selfie with Aryan Khan went viral, the NCB issued a public clarification saying he was not part of the NCB team. This blew his false facade, prompting the others to get him to return the money.

Gosavi had made plans to go underground the same night with the Rs 50-lakh amount which he had received, but his cover was blown and all the other four persons involved in the deal – Sam D’Souza, Vijay Pagare, Sunil Patil, Prabhakar Sail and SRK’s manager and others began hounding Gosavi.

Gosavi had switched off his phone for 3 hours and was planning to run away and possibly leave the country, but his luck did not favor him and the others managed to track him down and ask him for the refund. Adding to Gosavi’s woes, the NCB top brass got irritated and angry with the selfie stunt and instructed the Mumbai Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede to shunt out Gosavi, keeping him at arms length.

Gosavi was trying to negotiate a deal with Wankhede and had initially planned to offer him Rs 5 crore for Aryan Khan’s release, but a rattled Wankhede stopped taking Gosavi’s calls after his bosses in New Delhi told him in no uncertain terms to keep away from Gosavi.

This was the icing on the cake for Gosavi who still tried to hold on to Rs 12 lakh, but was not successful.

MUMBAI: Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan skipped the Narcotics Control Bureau summons for two days consequently citing bad health. He claimed he is suffering from fever and Covid-like symptoms. Aryan Khan’s Covid RT-PCR test results are expected tomorrow and his health is being monitored.

Similarly, SRK’s manager Pooja Dadlani also claimed she was unwell with fever and did not attend the NCB office.

So is Aryan Khan down with Covid? Things will be more clear after his test results are out.

Further, for the last few days the star kid seems to have lost his appetite and is hardly eating anything. Why this could be due to the fact, while in jail for 20 days he was only surviving on biscuits and water. Due to this, his appetite, metabolism and digestive system could have got disrupted resulting in zero appetite.

Meanwhile, the Mumbai Police’s Special Investigation Team, conducting a parallel investigation into the extortion allegations against NCB officials in the Aryan Khan drugs case, has asked for the CCTV footage of NCB’s south Mumbai offices.

Mumbai Police sources told a news channel that the process of formally and legally requisitioning the NCB to provide the footage ‘has begun’.

They added that footage from dates leading to the night of October 2 when Aryan Khan and other accused in the drugs case were brought to the NCB office in Ballard Estate has been sought through legal means.

“This is to check the activity and movement of Sam D’Souza, K P Gosawi and Manish Bhanushali inside the NCB office,” a police official privy to the development said.

MUMBAI: Two former female Bigg Boss contestants had attended an overnight party at hotel The Lalit in suburban Mumbai, wherein Sunil Patil, Sam D’Souza and now-arrested Narcotics Control Bureau witness Kiran Gosavi were present, along with some politicians and a former Minister, said a source who had helped fix up the deal.

According to our source, the party was held this year and the girls were paid Rs 5 lakh per night for their services. One of the female Bigg Boss participants privately entertained the former Minister and the second was in the room of an influential businessman, close to an ex Police Commissioner.

Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik has claimed that Patil used to regularly organize parties at The Lalit, where call girls were invited to entertain the guests.

Addressing a press conference in Mumbai today, Malik alleged that there exists a connection between the present Zonal Director of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai unit and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders.

“We think there might have been some talks between Sameer Wankhede and BJP leaders,” Malik told media persons in Mumbai.

“Mohit Kamboj and Sameer Wankhede met outside Oshiwara graveyard on October 7. He was spotted by two cops from the Oshiwara police station who had gone there for some other work. Wankhede panicked and complained to the police that they were being chased. They were lucky that the CCTV cameras were not working so they were not caught in the footage,” Malik claimed.

“Vijay Pagare told me, they were staying in the Lalit Hotel for the last 7 months. Manish and Vilas Bhanushali, Sam D’Souza used to come there. Girls also used to come there, and drugs were consumed there and money was also exchanged there,” he said.

Pagare and Patil were in contact with several pimps who provided high class call girls and escorts for their parties, attended by politicians, police and government officials. It is not known if the women were used to honeytrap the officials and blackmail them later on.

MUMBAI: As more and more allegations surface and skeletons tumble out of the closets, it seems three key players in the Aryan Khan drugs bust case, hosted parties in 5-star hotels in and around Mumbai, where services of call girls, escorts and popular instagram influencers, charging Rs 7 to Rs 10 lakh per night were enlisted.

The three key players are Fashion TV India head Kashiff Khan, Sunil Patil and now-arrested Narcotics Control Bureau panch witness Kiran Gosavi. Khan is known for his flamboyant parties where society women are involved.

Names of two former female Bigg Boss contestants who attended these parties, have also surfaced.

While NCP leader Nawab Malik claimed that an attempt was made to lure Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Aslam Shaikh to the cruise party, BJP leader Mohit Bharatiya aka Mohit Khamboj alleged, “I’ve said earlier that a Maharashtra Minister who has relations with drug peddlers was involved in the cruise party. Now Nawab Malik himself confirmed that Aslam Shaikh has relations with Kashiff Khan and also that children of NCP leaders, ministers are in contact with drug peddlers.”

MUMBAI: Now arrested NCB witness in the Aryan Khan drug case, Kiran Gosavi had tried to honeytrap and frame some key Mumbai Zone Narcotics Control Bureau officers, who were against him and wanted him away from the case.

According to a former drug accused, who is also running a high-profile call-girl business in Mumbai and Goa, two-days before Aryan Khan was arrested, Gosavi had “inquired about three high-profile Bollywood call girls and one very popular instagram influencer who charge in the range of Rs 5 to Rs 7 lakh per night”.

He told the former drug peddler that he wanted to oblige some senior NCB officials and would pay him after the deal was done.

However, the peddler-turned pimp flatly refused to give Gosavi any credit, as the women would have to be paid upfront for their services. He told Gosavi, who was known to him, that the full amount would have to be paid in advance in cash.

“It was then that Gosavi told me that he wanted to trap the NCB officials who were against his deep meddling in NCB cases. He wanted to secretly film the sex acts between the NCB officers and the women, to serve as a backup insurance against the officials who were not supporting him,” the peddler-turned pimp told this reporter.

Since Gosavi could not pay Rs 15 lakh upfront, the deal fell through, the pimp said.

MUMBAI: While Fashion TV MD Kashiff Khan in a press conference on Friday claimed that he was not an organiser of the cruise party on the cruise ship Cordelia The Empress, on which drugs were seized, but rather a guest like the others on board, sources at the event company Namascray have claimed otherwise.

Khan in his defense told the media that he paid for food and beverages with his own credit card and has bills to prove the same.

While Namas’cray directors Sameer Sehgal and Gopalji Anand, were arrested by the NCB and granted bail on Saturday, Fashion TV MD Kashiff Khan was not arrested.

Questions have been raised by many, including by Maharashtra minister Nawab Mallik concerning the reasons why Kashiff Khan was given special treatment by the NCB.

The event promo material mentions Fashion Tv India as the presenting sponsor or the main sponsor of the Cruise ship party.

According to NCB claims, one more arrested accused, peddler Shreyas Nair supplied narcotic substances to nearly 25 people on the cruise. MDMA pills, Mephedrone and other banned drugs were recovered from Shreyas Nair, the NCB had said.

According to sources both in Mumbai and Goa, Shreyas Nair is a Malayalee having several links with pubs, shacks and clubs in Goa. He is rumored to be a secret business partner of Kashiff Khan and the duo are often seen together at high-profile parties.

The day the raid took place, Nair was supposed to be on the cruise ship, but backed out at the last minute. It is said that he was tipped off by Kashiff Khan (who was already in the ship) about the NCB raid and kept away from the venue. He was arrested later on when his name cropped up in Aryan Khan’s WhatsApp chats after Aryan’s phone was scanned by the NCB.

Similarly, many incriminating WhatsApp chats between Nair and Kashiff Khan were found on Shreyas’ phone, claim NCB sources, but the NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede did not take any action against the FTv executive.

While Shreyas Nair has been clearly labelled as a drug peddler, his close associate Kashiff Khan was not touched by the NCB.

Businessman Arjun Jain a former additional director of Namas’cray Experience Private Limited resigned from the directorship of the company on August 24 this year and was not involved in the cruise party.

According to an India Today report, Jain was in the news a few years ago for bringing international pop star Justin Bieber to Mumbai in 2017 and co-ordinating the Indian leg of his ‘Purpose Tour’.

In August this year, he was arrested (and later released on bail) for allegedly cheating a man of Rs 5 crore, by promising him huge returns from another musical event in the country.

Jain is a partner, director and additional director of a few other firms which are mostly into hospitality and event management, but fell out with the directors of Namas’cray and left the company.

Namas’cray is a Delhi-based firm registered as Caneplus Trading Private Limited and was a co-organiser along with Fashion Tv India, sources claimed. FTv India was shown as a sponsor, but was entitled to certain profits out of the event.

Namas’cray was established on 30 October 2020. The company was tasked with the management of the event onboard Cordelia Cruises’ Empress ship, from October 2 to October 4.

Arjun Jain was appointed as the additional director of Namas’cray on March 8, 2021, along with Sameer Sehgal and Gopalji Anand, who were appointed as additional directors of the firm on March 15, 2021.