MUMBAI: An accused in the cruise drugs case, Arbaaz Merchant told the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) that in 2018 he had tried to complain to police about peddlers from a Khar chawl who were selling “laced drugs” that made “children ill” and caused “organ damage.” Merchant (26), a friend of Aryan Khan who has been let off in the case, alleged that he was “confident” people at “Murugan Chall” had a secret partnership with cops from the local police station as they did not act on his complaints.
Six grams of charas were allegedly seized from Merchant during the NCB raid on the cruise liner. Out on bail, Merchant is among the 14 accused named in the chargesheet submitted by the NCB’s SIT on Friday.
