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Key witness in Aryan Khan case, Prabhakar Sail dies of heart attack

IndiaKey witness in Aryan Khan case, Prabhakar Sail dies of heart attack

NCB’s witness Prabhakar Sail who claimed Wankhede’s extortion on Shah Rukh Khan dies suddenly, lawyer states heart attack as a reason.

NCB’s witness Prabhakar Sail dies, lawyer cites heart attack as the reason.  Witness Prabhakar Sail had accused KP Gosavi of seeking a payoff of Rs 25 crore in the Aryan Khan drug case where Prabhakar was one of the witnesses who had alleged extortion by NCB officials last year during the probe of the Cordelia Cruise Ship drugs case.  Aryan Khan, Shah Rukh Khan’s son, had been arrested and sent to Arthur Road Jail where he was an inmate till October 30 with his friend Arbaaz Merchant.

NCB’s witness, Prabhakar Sail, 37, died of a heart attack at his house in Mahul (Chembur) on Friday evening,” a police official told news agency PTI.

The official said that Sail was taken to the civic-run Rajawadi Hospital in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar, where he was declared ‘brought dead’. The news was also verified by his lawyer Tushar Khandar, who declared that Sail’s family members do not suspect any foul play.

The Cordelia Cruise Ship drugs case, in which Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was arrested in October 2021 is a complicated one.  On Saturday, ANI shared the news that Narcotics Control Bureau’s witness Prabhakar Sail died on Friday afternoon. Prabhakar Sail was NCB’s Panch witness in the drugs on cruise ship case where Aryan was arrested with his friend Arbaaz Merchant last year in October.  Prabhakar’s lawyer claimed that he died of a heart attack on Friday.

ANI tweeted, “Mumbai | NCB’s panch witness in Cordelia cruise drug case, Prabhakar Sail died yesterday. As per his lawyer Tushar Khandare, he died of a heart attack at his residence in Mahul area of Chembur yesterday.”

Recently, the NCB had requested the Court to grant them 90 days to file a charge sheet in Aryan’s case. However, the Court only granted them 60 more days to file a charge sheet. Initially, the NCB’s deadline to file the charge sheet in Aryan Khan’s case was April 2. However, the SIT team appealed to Mumbai Sessions Court to grant them an extension in the matter.

Last year, Aryan was granted bail by the Bombay High Court and he was released on October 30, 2021. Since then, Aryan has been spending time with his family.

The witness who became a whistleblower in Aryan Khan alleged drug case in a cruise ship where Prabhakar Sail had accused NCB’s former Director Sameer Wankhede and his team of planting drugs in the cruise ship to extort Rs 25 crore from Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan is now suddenly found mysteriously dead leaves many open-ended questions among the public.

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