A new witness has emerged in the Aryan Khan drug bust case. A Mumbai-based businessman named Vijay Pagare told Marathi news channels that Aryan was "framed" in the bust, and implicated by some people to make money. "It was a pre-planned raid," he said, further claiming that he knew the people involved in this episode, including an NCB witness whose selfie with Aryan had gone vial. Pagare told Times of India: “I have reasons to believe that the raid was pre-planned and Aryan Khan was framed in the drug case. The entire strategy was finalised on September 27, while the cruise ship was raided on October 2."
Earlier, Prabhakar Sail, an independent witness in the NCB case, had alleged that he overheard K.P. Gosavi, another witness in the cruise ship raid case, talking to one Sam D'Souza over the phone about a demand of Rs 25 crore including Rs 8 crore for NCB's Sameer Wankhede. Wankhede, an IRS officer, has denied the allegations.
