Extortion bid claim: Police records Sail’s statement

Mumbai: The city police, probing four complaint applications in connection with the alleged extortion attempt in the cruise drug seizure case, recorded the statement of Prabhakar Sail, a witness and bodyguard of another witness K P Gosavi, for around eight hours.

His statement recording began on Tuesday evening and continued till midnight. Besides Sail, Nitin Deshmukh and two advocates had submitted complaint applications at MRA Marg police station.

A four-member, led by ACP Milind Khetle and comprising Colaba police inspector Ajay Sawant, API Shrikant Karkar of anti-narcotics cell, and PSI Prakash Gawli of cyber police station (south region) has ben set up to probe the allegations in the applications. Sources said the ACP will record NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede’s statement too in this matter.

The contents of all the applications are mostly similar, but one of them alleges that Aryan Khan was dragged from one place to another and claimed that it was a case of kidnapping. Police are retrieving CCTV footage and location details of the people mentioned in Sail’s application. Statements of other applicants will also be recorded. tnn