According to reports, Prabhakar Sail, a key witness in the Aryan Khan drug case, died on April 1. Tushar Khandare, Prabhakar Sail’s attorney, confirmed to ANI that the Narcotics Control Bureau witness died of a heart attack at his Chembur, Mumbai, home. He was 37 years old at the time.
Prabhakar Sail, NCB’s panch witness in the drug case on the Cordelia cruise ship, died yesterday.
“”According to his lawyer Tushar Khandare, he died of a heart attack at his residence in the Mahul area of Chembur yesterday,” ANI tweeted.
According to a report in India Today, there is no suspicion of wrongdoing in the Sail family.
Prabhakar Sail, KP Gosavi’s bodyguard, was photographed with Aryan Khan after the latter’s arrest, and the photos quickly went viral on social media. On October 2, Gosavi appeared as an independent witness for the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the Aryan Khan drug bust on the Cordelia cruise ship.
Sail filed an affidavit after Gosawi’s role became questionable, and he was arrested by Pune police in a 2018 cheating case that was still pending before them. According to NCB Special Investigation Team (SIT) files, Sail became hostile during the Aryan Khan drugs investigation.
NCP leader and minister Nawab Malik, whose own son-in-law was arrested in an NCB drug case in January 2021 and imprisoned for more than 8 months, was especially critical of the drug investigation. It was claimed that Minister Malik’s personal vendetta can be seen in his repeated attacks on NCB officer Sameer Wankhede and his attempt to derail a drug bust on a cruise ship.
Arbaaz Merchant, Aryan Khan, and six other revellers were apprehended on a luxury cruise ship on October 3, 2021, while the ship was docked for a rave party. According to reports, cocaine and ecstasy pills were discovered on Khan and others who were with him.
The Court then ruled that Khan and the other co-accused had established a prima facie case. The accused must be present for a thorough investigation to take place. Both the prosecution and the accused benefit from this in proving their innocence “It had been written.
