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Pune, Oct 28 (PTI) Pune police on Thursday arrested Kiran Gosavi, an independent witness of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the drugs-on-cruise case, in connection with a 2018 cheating case registered against him here in Maharashtra, a senior official said.
Gosavi, who had been absconding, did not surrender before the police, the official said, adding that he had been moving to various locations in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Telangana while on the run.
The accused was later produced in a Pune court.
His photos and videos with actor Shah Rukh Khan"s son Aryan Khan went viral on social media after the NCB"s raid on the cruise ship off the Mumbai coast on October 2.
Recently, another witness in the drugs case, Prabhakar Sail, told media persons that he had overheard Gosavi telling one Sam D"Souza over the phone, after Aryan Khan was brought to the NCB office following the October 2 raid on the cruise ship, about a demand of Rs 25 crore and "to settle at Rs 18 crore as they have to give Rs eight crore to Sameer Wankhede".
Gosavi had on Monday refuted the extortion claims made by Sail, and said he will surrender before Lucknow police.