NCB demanded Rs 18 crore to release Aryan Khan, claims witness, agency denies

MUMBAI: Prabhakar Rohoji Sail, an independent witness and personal bodyguard of K P Gosavi (also an independent panch witness), has alleged that an official of the NCB and some other persons demanded Rs 25 crore from Shah Rukh Khan to release his son Aryan.

He has signed a notarized affidavit and made several startling claims in it.

Sail, who is reportedly the personal bodyguard of BJP sympathizer Kiran Gosavi, — the self-proclaimed private investigator whose selfie with Aryan went viral — also said that NCB officials asked him to sign nine to ten blank papers.

Sail claimed he heard Gosavi telling a certain Sam D’Souza over phone about a demand of Rs 25 crore and to settle at Rs 18 crore as they “have to give Rs eight crore to Sameer Wankhede (NCB Zonal Director)”. Gosavi was overheard saying “we will pay Rs 8 crore to Wankhede,” Sail said in his affidavit.

He further claimed that he had seen Pooja Dadlani (Shah Rukh Khan’s manager) talking to Gosavi. He said that he was asked by Gosavi to go to a particular location at Tardeo in Central Mumbai to collect Rs 50 lakh cash. He claimed he collected two bags of cash and delivered to Gosavi. When counted by Sam D’souza, he said the bag had only Rs 38 lakh.

After these shocking claims, Maharashtra Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik, who has repeatedly termed the cruise drugs bust case as “fake”, said Sail’s claims were “very serious” and demanded a probe into it by a Special Investigation Team (SIT).