NCB-BJP connection: NCP leader makes false allegations, Union Minister
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Vadodara: Union minister Ramdas Athawale said that Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) is an independent entity and its routines have no connection with the BJP, Asian News International (ANI) reported.
On Sunday, the minister was responding to the allegations made by Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik that the anti-drug agency has a connection with the BJP.
Athawale said that political parties are entirely unrelated and irrelevant when it comes to the agency's activities and functioning. Malik is levelling false allegations, and "NCP is doing its work correctly", he told ANI.
On Saturday, Nawab Malik alleged that a connection existed between the Zonal Director of NCB Mumbai unit, Sameer Wankhede, and BJP leaders. He explained that after the raid on the cruise ship off the Mumbai coast, Sameer Wankhede said eight to ten people were detained while the truth was 11 people.
Later three of them, Rishabh Sachdeva, Prateek Gaba and Amir Furniturewala, were released, he claimed. Malik had asked in whose directions did the agency release the three.
It was on October 2, the NCB busted an alleged drugs party on the Cordelia Cruise ship, which was on its way to Goa at mid-sea. NCB had arrested a drug peddler on Saturday after interrogation in the drugs-on-cruise-ship case. The total number of arrests registered stays at 19 so far.