BJP acts like it owns central probe agencies: Shiv Sena amid political row over NCB's cruise drugs case

Amid a political slugfest over the cruise drugs seizure case of the Narcotics Control Bureau NCB the Shiv Sena on Tuesday said the BJP acts like it owns central investigation agencies but it should not forget that in a democracy owners do changeAn editorial in the Sena mouthpiece Saamana said the allegations of Rs 25 crore demand in the drugs case in which Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khans son Aryan Khan is an accused are just the tip of the iceberg The owners and their employees should be beware of the consequences it saidThe question is not about actor Shah Rukh Khan or his son but it is about the character and honesty of the central investigation agencies Who is going to find out where Kiran Gosavi one of the NCBs witness in the case is hiding it saidGosavi who is facing a cheating in Pune was untraceable after his photos and videos with Aryan Khan went viral on social media following the NCBs raid on the cruise ship off the Mumbai coast earlier this monthOn Monday Gosavi refuted the extortion claims made by his aide and another witness in the case Prabhakar Sail and said he will surrender shortly before the Lucknow policeThe NCB has ordered a vigilance inquiry into the claims made by Sail about of an extortion bid of Rs 25 crore by some agency officials including its Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede and others for letting off Aryan KhanAlso read Central investigating agencies working as contract killers for party in power in Delhi Sanjay RautThe three ruling parties in Maharashtra Shiv Sena NCP and Congress have repeatedly claimed that central agencies were being used to target the opposition partiesThe editorial in Saamana said The BJP acts like it owns the central investigation agencies It should not forget that in a democracy owners do change There are proofs for it in history The party BJP should not forget that it is like any other political party It should also remember that political power comes and goesThe BJP was once a party of some principles sacrifice and nationalism but we cannot expect the same thing from it in its current form Even the veterans in the BJP are uncomfortableiquest the Sena claimedIt said people have been wondering about the claim of Rs 25 crore demand made in the Aryan Khan case for a few grams of drugsHow much bribe amount was sought to settle the case of 3500 kg heroin found at the Adani groupcontrolled Mundra port in Gujarat Nobody knew when that case was closed but the Aryan Khan case is still going on the Marathi daily saidIt said the law related to drugs use says consumers of such substances should be rehabilitated They should be punished for their acts but ensure they do not fall into the same trap again and again But in reality it is not happening the Sena saidThe present NCB officials were also involved in probing a drugs case related to the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput case where a transaction of Rs 4000 was made from a bank account of actor Rhea Chakraborty it saidIt is not the duty of the NCB to probe a case of Rs 4000 the editorial saidThere is a similar department of the Maharashtra police which deals with drugs cases but never goes for publicity it saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever