MUMBAI: The cruise drugs bust triggered a controversy after it emerged that Kiran Gosavi, one of the panch witnesses, had a criminal background.
Actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan, his friend Arbaaz Merchant and others were arrested on October 3, following an October 2 raid by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) team, led by then zonal director Sameer Wankhede, at an international terminal on a Goa-bound cruise. When they were brought to NCB’s Ballard Pier office, Gosavi moved around holding Aryan’s hand as if he was an NCB officer. A day later after Gosavi’s picture with Aryan at the NCB office went viral and questions were raised as he was a politically connected person, the NCB clarified that he was a panch (witness).
