Bollywood & Drugs
SRK’s son Aryan Khan kept in “after” barrack in quarantine at Arthur Road Jail
MUMBAI: Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan who was refused bail by a Magistrate’s Court in Mumbai has been kept at Barrack No 3 at the Arthur Road Jail, which is also known as “after”. It’s known as “after”, because undertrials and convicts who are brought to the jail after 6 pm are usually kept there. He could also be kept in Barrack No 1 depending on the discretion of the Jail Superintendent, the crowding factor and presence of other underworld gangsters in the jail.
As per jail rules, the jail is locked down at 6 pm everyday, 6 days a week and inmates cannot leave their individual cells or barracks after 6 pm. On Sundays It’s locked down at 2 pm. The jail barracks and circles are opened only at 6.30 am the next morning after ginthi or counting of the number of inmates. Between 7 am to 6 pm, inmates are allowed to visit the canteen, godown, or in-house doctor or even the jail office, besides use the general bathing sections or attend court hearings physically or via videoconferencing.
According to NCB officials Khan was denied bail and will be spending the weekend in prison. He was sent to judicial custody by the Magistrate’s court yesterday, but was kept in the NCB office for a night on a special request by his lawyer. Aryan Khan was allegedly supplied drugs by one of the other men arrested in the cruise ship drug bust, the anti-drugs Federal agency said in court yesterday as it argued against the 23-year-old being given bail on the grounds that there were other accused too and if one accused was granted bail, then the others could also claim for bail as a matter of right on the condition of parity or equality as the FIR or case is the same.
On Monday, he was denied bail after his sensational arrest that rocked the nation and was sent to the custody of anti-drugs agency Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) till yesterday by a Mumbai local court.
Mumbai Central Prison, popularly known as Arthur Road Jail, was built in 1926, and is Mumbai’s largest and oldest prison. It houses most of the city’s prisoners. It was declared a Central Jail in 1972. Although its name was changed to Mumbai Central Prison it is still popularly known as Arthur Road Jail. The jail occupies 2 acres (0.81 ha) of land.
Arthur Road Jail has housed several high profile inmates including actor Sanjay Dutt, ex-Star TV CEO Peter Mukerjea, stock broker Ketan Parikh, stock broker Harshad Mehta also referred to as the Big Bull and an ex-Bombay High Court Judge. Among gangsters, the known ones who spent time at Arthur Road Jail include Mustafa Dossa, Abu Salem, D K Rao, Telgi stamp paper scam accused, and Arun Gawli to name a few.
The jail is located near Jacob Circle or Saat Rasta, between the Mahalaxmi railway station and Chinchpokli railway station and the Jacob Circle monorail station in the southern part of the city.
Bollywood & Drugs
Aftab Ponnawalla claimed he could get the best Malana Cream and Manali ganja in the world, alleges Ishika Borah?
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.
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Aryan Khan moves HC seeking modification of bail condition about weekly appearance at NCB office
MUMBAI, (PTI): Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, on Friday, approached the Bombay High Court seeking modification of a condition imposed on him when he got bail in the drugs-on-cruise case.
Aryan’s application sought a waiver of the condition that he shall appear before the Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) south Mumbai office every Friday to mark presence.
As the investigation has been now transferred to a Special Investigation Team of Delhi NCB, the condition that he appear at the Mumbai office could be relaxed said the plea.
The application also said that he has to be accompanied by police personnel every time he visits the NCB office here due to the large number of media persons waiting outside.
The application is likely to be heard by the high court next week, his lawyers said.
Aryan Khan was arrested by the NCB on October 3 on charges of alleged possession, consumption, and sale/purchase of drugs following a raid on a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast.
He was granted bail by the high court on October 28. The high court also imposed 14 conditions on him. He was asked, among other things, to appear before the NCB each Friday, not to leave Mumbai without informing the agency, and not to leave India without permission from the special NDPS court. (PTI)
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Aryan Khan drugs case: SRK’s manager Pooja Dadlani seeks legal advice on NCB summons
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.
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Aryan Khan drugs case: Gosavi posed as NCB officer, planned to run away with money, had switched off phone for 3 hours
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.
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Does Aryan Khan have Covid?
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.
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Aryan Khan drugs case: Two female ex-Bigg Boss contestants paid Rs 5 lakh each, attended party at Hotel Lalit
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.
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Aryan Khan case: High-profile call girls, Insta influencers charging Rs 7-10 lakh per night involved in Gosavi, Sunil Patil and Kashiff Khan’s parties
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.”
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Aryan Khan drug case: Gosavi tried to honeytrap and frame key NCB officials
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.