The CBI on Thursday questioned model Munmun Dhamecha, who was arrested with actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan in a drugs case, in connection with its probe against former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officer Sameer Wankhede.
Dhamecha appeared before the investigation team at the CBI headquarters here and was subjected to questioning, sources said. She was among those arrested by the NCB along with Aryan Khan on October 3, 2021, a day after the raid on the Cordelia cruise ship. It was alleged that about 5 gram charas was recovered from Dhamecha during the NCB raid. However, a special inquiry team (SET) of the NCB later red-flagged several lapses and irregularities in the operation on the cruise ship conducted under the “monitoring” of then NCB Zonal Director of Mumbai Sameer Wankhede.
The NCB had alleged that a private person, named KP Gosavi, and his aide Prabhakar Sail, since deceased, were included as independent witnesses in the cruise ship raid on October 2, 2021 on the directions of Wankhede. Gosavi and his aide Sanvile D’Souza along with others had allegedly entered into a conspiracy to “extort Rs 25 crore” from Aryan’s family by “threatening them of the accusation of offences of possession of narcotics substances”, according to the FIR.
