Mumbai Cruise Rave Party: Has the NCB’s case been weakened by the overturning of the punch? Law experts have different opinions

Mumbai
In a case, raids and recovery should be in front of at least two arbitrators, it is written in the law, but when a arbitrator makes allegations of extortion against the agency that made him arbitrator, then there is a new twist in the whole case. goes.

The same happened in the Cardila Cruise Ship drugs case involving Shahrukh Khan’s son Aryan, when the arbitrator named Prabhakar Sail gave an affidavit in the court alleging that his signature on the Panchnama being talked about was being signed on October 2. Not taken anywhere inside or outside the ship.

He was signed on ten blank papers at the NCB headquarters. He alleged dealings of Rs 25 crore in this case and claimed to have heard over the phone that Rs 8 crore was given to NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede.

The question is that since Sameer Wankhede has been accused of extortion, can an FIR be registered against Sameer Wankhede by Maharashtra Police in this case? 26/11 Chief Investigating Officer Ramesh Mahale told us that since the matter has gone to court earlier because of the filing of the affidavit, now the court will decide whether to register an FIR against Sameer Wankhede or not.

what the experts say
Former IPS officer and eminent advocate YP Singh has a different opinion than Mahale. Singh says that since the NCB comes under the central government, the central government would like another central agency to investigate the allegations against the zonal director of a central investigative agency like NCB, but the CBI investigation is not easy in this case because During the investigation of the fake TRP case, the Maharashtra government had issued an order that from now on the CBI cannot directly investigate any case without its permission.

Mahale says that if I were the defense lawyer, then during the trial, Pancha Prabhakar would have cut the part of the cell that became public on Sunday 24 October, in which he has talked about the signature on the Panchnama in his NCB office and then to the investigating officer of the case. He would show and simply ask that when your punch is saying this, where is your point of recovery of drugs from the accused at the Yellow Gate port where the Cardilla cruise ship was standing on 2 October?

Both Mahale and YP Singh say that in such a high-profile case, a big agency like NCB should have made the government employees the arbitrator and not any private person. Since the private arbitrator has already overturned and his video has become public and affidavit has been filed in the court, it is certainly not very easy for the NCB to take up the conviction during the Aryan case trial.