PUNE Police on Thursday arrested Kiran Gosavi, an independent witness of the NCB who was apparently present during an alleged drug bust on a cruise ship involving Aryan Khan, in a cheating case registered in the city. A local court later remanded Gosavi, whose selfie and video with Aryan Khan, actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son, had gone viral, in police custody till November 5.

 

Gosavi did not surrender but was arrested while being on the run and he had been moving from place to place in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Telangana, a senior police official said. Recently, another witness in the drugs case, Prabhakar Sail, had claimed that he had overheard Gosavi telling one Sam D’Souza over the phone -- after Aryan was taken to the NCB office on October 2 -- about a demand of Rs 25 crore, and “to settle at Rs 18 crore as they have to give Rs eight crore to Sameer Wankhede”, the zonal director of the NCB who supervised the raid on the cruise ship. Gosavi had on Monday refuted Sail’s claim and said he would surrender before Lucknow Police.