Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party Minister Nawab Malik on Sunday alleged that Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan was “trapped, kidnapped for ransom” in the Mumbai Cruise rave party which was raided by the Narcotics Control Bureau and Khan along with others was shown as an accused.
He said Wankhede ran a private army to trap high-profile people and then extort from them crores of rupees. The army consists of four persons namely Wankhede, his juniors V. V. Singh and Ashish Ranjan and one of his drivers Mane.
The other members of the alleged ‘private army’ are Kiran Gosavi, Mohan Bhanushali, Sam D’souza – whose real name is Sanville Steanley D’Souza, Mohit Kamboj-Bharatiya and Sunil Patil Malik said.
Replying to BJP leader Bharatiya’s charges of Saturday, Malik said he had never met Sunil Patil, nor is he linked with the NCP in any manner.
According to the NCP leader, Aryan Khan was invited to the cruise party by Pratik Gaba and Amir Furniturewala, both are the friends of Rishab Sachdeva – who is linked with Bharatiya.
“Now it is established that Aryan Khan was kidnapped and a ransom of Rs. 25-crore was demanded for his release, and the final figure was sealed at Rs. 18 crore, of which Rs. 50-lakh was already taken… Mohit Kamboj-Bharatiya is the mastermind,” Malik said, referring to the affidavit of one of the witnesses Prabhakar Sail. (UNI)