Originally posted by: Illyrion
I am completely lost. I’ve been trying to read and understand but anyone know if there has been any recent post with a good summary of what has been happening since bail?
Justwandering gave a good summary. Apart from that, all the various witnesses are turning on each other.
1. Kiran Gosavi - the taklu in the selfie was arrested by Pune cops for previous cases that had been filed against him. The NCB wants to talk to him and went to NDPS court to get permission to interrogate him. They don't have jurisdiction and told them to go and file for permission in the Pune court.
2. Prabhakar Sail - Taklu's bodyguard. He was the first witness to turn hostile and has said Gosavi, Sam D'Souza, Sunil Patil, Manish Bhanushali and others were planning on extorting 25 crores from SRK. 8 crores had to be given to NCB director Sameer Wankhede. He has given statements to the Mumbai Police and the NCB vigilance committee.
3. Sam D'Souza - He says it's Gosavi, Sail and Sunil Patil who are frauds and were planning on extorting money. He was only involved because Sunil Patil asked him to link them to Pooja. He claims 50 lakhs was paid but when he found out they were frauds, he returned the money back to Pooja.
4. Sunil Patil - Some BJP operative from Gujarat and alleged mastermind of the extortion plot. He says he got a list of people who were supposed to be on the ship and he sent it to Gosavi. He is giving interviews that he's being threatened and he was beat up and that he has nothing to do with the extortion. He says he got the list of people on the ship to be caught from Neeraj Yadav, a close aide of Kailash Vijayvargiya - National General Secretary of the BJP.
5. Manish Bhanushali - another witness and BJP party worker. Sail and others have claimed he was part of the extortion. He says he was not and that he was only an informer and it was Sunil Patil who gave him the list of names on the ship. He also claims there is a threat to his life. He's being summoned by the Mumbai Police but not sure if he went or not.
These 5 were witnesses in the NCB raid. I think there might have been a 6th witness - Fletcher Patel. He is a family friend of Wankhede and appears as a witness in multiple cases.
There is another man named Vijay Pagare who has also come forward. He says Aryan was deliberately framed by Gosavi and the other men in order to make 25 crores from extortion. He claims Bhanushali asked him to go get money with him and he heard them talking about the 25 crores and that it had been negotiated to 18 crores out of which 50 lakhs had been taken. He says he had been following Sunil Patil around because Patil owed him money and he was told he would get it back because they were getting money soon (from the Aryan case).
There are currently various teams working on this case. There is an NCB SIT team probing the drug case. Wankhede was removed from it though he claims it's not true. There is also an NCB Vigilance team probing Wankhede and whether or not he was involved in the extortion plot. There are also two Mumbai Police teams. One Mumbai Police SIT team is investigating the extortion plot and another team is investigating Wankhede's SC certificate and whether or not he's actually a Dalit.
Currently - Pooja Dadlani has been summoned twice by the Mumbai Police team but she's skipped it citing her health. A 3rd summons is expected to be issued soon.
I think I've managed to summarize it. If there are any mistakes, someone please correct me.
Edited by hotchoco - 4 years ago