Maharashtra minority affairs minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik denied knowing Sunil Patil, one of the accused in the drugs on cruise case.
An NCB team busted an alleged drugs party on the Cordelia Cruise ship which was on its way to Goa at mid-sea on October 2. A total of 20 people, including two Nigerian nationals and Aryan Khan, have been arrested so far in the case.
“I never met Sunil Patil before nor he is a National Congress party worker. Since yesterday a lot of photos have been going viral of Sunil Patil and Manish Bhanushali with different political leaders”, said Nawab.
He also said that Patil is a fraud and is a player in Sameer Wankhade’s private army.
“On October 6, when I held a press conference, Patil called me after two hours of the conference and said that he wants to provide more evidence in this particular case. I would him to come to Mumbai and talk face to face but he never came. He again called me during my second press conference, but there was again no sign of him,” he said.
Earlier today, Dnyandev Wankhede, the father of NCB Mumbai Zonal director Sameer Wankhede has filed a defamation suit against Nawab Malik in the Bombay High Court.
Malik alleged that Fashion TV head Kashiff Khan forced Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) minister Aslam Shaikh to come to the Cordelia Cruise ship party and was also planning to bring children of various ministers to the party.
