The Pune Police said that they have detained Kiran Gosavi, a witness in the Mumbai drugs-on-cruise case, in connection with a cheating case on Thursday morning from Pune’s outskirts, adding that process to formally arrest him is underway.
Pune (Maharashtra) [India] : Pune City police commissioner Amitabh Gupta said, “Kiran Gosavi had collected Rs 3 lakh from Chinmay Deshmukh on the pretext of providing job in Malaysia in 2018. He had sent Deshmukh to Malaysia on a tourist visa. After Deshmukh realised that he was cheated by Gosavi, he filed a complaint.” Gupta added, “Since then, Gosavi was on the run. Now we have been detained him from the outskirts of Pune. The process to formally arrest him is underway.” A case was registered against Gosavi with Faraskhana police station of Pune city on May 19, 2018, for allegedly committing fraud by promising a person a job in Malaysia by taking money. However, he neither returned the money nor offered the job to the complainant. The accused was booked under sections 419, 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) along with relevant sections of the Intellectual Technology (IT) Act.
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Kiran Gosavi has been arrested in a 2018 cheating case. A charge-sheet was filed in the case in 2019. If we get more complaints against him, we will register fresh offence against him: Amitabh Gupta, Commissioner of Police, Pune City pic.twitter.com/qkh9tsCFj7
Chargesheet was filed in the court as the accused was not found. He is still wanted in the case. Gosavi is a witness in the Mumbai cruise drugs case in which Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was arrested under the NDPS Act. Prabhakar Sail, who is the personal bodyguard of Gosavi and also a witness in the Mumbai cruise ship raid case, had alleged that NCB Zonal Director, Kiran Gosavi and some other NCB officials had sought Rs 25 crores from Shah Rukh Khan in order to release Aryan Khan. Other than this, a case of fraud has also been registered against Gosavi at the Kelwa Police station in Palghar on October 18. As per the police, he had duped people of lakhs of rupees on the pretext of sending them abroad for jobs.
NCB witness Gosavi wants call, chat details of Prabhakar Sail to be released
Kiran Gosavi, the NCB’s witness in the Mumbai cruise drugs case, on Thursday asked the officials to release the call and chat detail records of Prabhakar Sail. Sail, who is the personal bodyguard of Kiran Gosavi and also a witness in the Mumbai cruise ship raid case, has alleged that Gosavi took Rs 50 lakh from an individual after the raid at the cruise ship. In a video message, before being detained by the Pune Police on Thursday, Gosavi claimed that the allegations made by Sail are not true. “Prabhakar Sail is lying. All I want to request is that his call detail reports must be released. My call detail reports or chats can be released, Prabhakar Sail and his brother’s call detail reports, as well as chats, should be released, everything will be clear,” Gosavi said. Kiran Gosavi is the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) witness in the drugs on cruise case involving Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan. He was detained earlier today by the Pune Police three days after he claimed he would surrender at a police station in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow. He has been detained in connection with a 2018 cheating case in which he was absconding. In 2019, Pune City Police declared him wanted. He was missing since then and was only spotted during the cruise raid as an NCB witness. On October 14, Police issued a lookout circular against him. Other than this, a case of fraud had also been registered against Gosavi at the Kelwa Police station in Palghar on October 18. As per the police, he had duped people of lakhs of rupees on the pretext of sending them abroad for jobs.
