MUMBAI: The Narcotics Control Bureau’s special investigation team (SIT), which had taken up six cases for further investigations, will now focus on the cruise drug bust case involving actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan NCP minister Nawab Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan case and actor Arman Kohli’s case.
The SIT was formed after a controversy erupted over allegations of a payoff to an NCB official in the cruise drug bust case and images of witnesses accompanying the accused to the NCB’s office with Aryan Khan and selfies with him emerged.
Malik had alleged that the case was fabricated. NCB had then said He was trying to settle scores after his son-in-law was booked in a narcotics case.
The SIT had taken over six cases but the priority will be to broaden the investigation into these three cases, according to deputy director of NCB, Sanjay Singh. “Due to shortage of manpower we have now taken up only three cases to relook at investigations carried out and later, we will take up the other three,” Singh told TOI. The three other cases pertain to the arrest of accused from Mumbra, Jogeshwari and Dongri for dealing in contraband.