NCB framed my son-in-law, seized marijuana was ‘herbal tobacco’: NCP’s Nawab Malik

NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik has stated the Narcotics Management Bureau framed his son-in-law Sameer Khan, who was arrested in January. He stated the ‘marijuana’ that NCB claimed it had seized from folks related to Khan was natural tobacco. Khan was launched on bail after spending greater than eight months in jail. Malik on Thursday produced the court docket order which granted bail to Khan to allege a pretend case was foisted upon his son-in-law.

“In January, NCB raided Karan Sajnani, who lives in Bandra, and claimed that they seized 200 kg marijuana from him. NCB launched images of the ‘seizure’ to journalists. Round January 9, additionally they raided Shaista Furniturewalla and seized 7.5 grams of marijuana and she or he was launched on bail the identical day. NCB tried to make an enormous deal by the media that Sameer was concerned in drug commerce. Nevertheless, it dragged its ft in submitting a cost sheet. The bail order now clearly says the forensic examination report had stated what NCB claimed was 200 kg marijuana just isn’t marijuana, however natural tobacco,” Malik stated.

The bail order by decide AA Joglekar questioned NCB’s assertions of Khan’s involvement within the drug commerce. Within the order uploaded on Wednesday, the NDPS court docket stated, the report enumerated that hashish was not detected within the 11 samples and “the speculation of the prosecution with regard to the invoking of Part 29 fails”. It additionally stated, “other than the stated competition within the reply, nothing is introduced on file to indicate the factum of connivance with one another or that of conspiracy in prima facie.”

Malik reproduced the NCB pictures to indicate that it was clicked within the NCB workplace and never throughout the raid. Malik alleged that even within the case of actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan, the images weren’t from the cruise ship however workplace of NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede.

Malik stated that he had come to know that after he raised questions on NCB raids towards comic Bharti Singh and her husband, its officers allegedly instructed journalists they’d “repair him”. “This isn’t simply a problem of my son-in-law. We’re engaged on at the least 12 instances the place NCB has foisted pretend instances. They’re simply doing this to harass the movie business,” Malik alleged. NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede instructed journalists that he wouldn’t be capable of reply to Malik’s allegations because the case was sub-judice, however added, “every thing is there within the chemical report.”