A witness in the Mumbai cruise drugs case, Vijay Pagare, recorded his statement with the Mumbai Police’s special investigation team (SIT) on November 4. He claimed that the raid on the cruise ship on October 2 was pre-planned and Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan was framed by certain individuals in order to make money.
Vijay Pagare claimed that he had been living with Sunil Patil for the last few months in order to recover the money that was owed to him and had, thus, witnessed the alleged extortion and framing of Aryan Khan as it unraveled. Sunil Patil’s name became relevant to the case on Saturday when Maharashtra BJP leader Mohit Kamboj claimed he is the ‘mastermind’ in the case and is closely associated with leaders of the Nationalist Congress Party.
In his statement to the Mumbai Police SIT constituted on October 27 to probe the extortion allegations against NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede, witness Vijay Pagare narrated the following course of events.
According to him, he had been living with Sunil Patil for the last few months as he needed to recover a certain amount of money from him. Sunil Patil, according to Maharashtra BJP leader Mohit Kamboj, is someone closely associated with NCP leaders. His name has cropped up during the investigation into the extortion charges.
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