Maharashtra Police file cheating, forgery case against private investigator Kiran Gosavi

The Maharashtra Police on Sunday filed a case of cheating and forgery against private detective Kiran Gosavi, who was said to be an independent witness of the Narcotics Control Bureau in a recent drugs bust in Mumbai, The Indian Express.

The police in Palghar district registered a first information report against Gosavi based on the complaint filed by two people named Utkarsh Tare and Adarsh Keni in 2018. This is the fourth FIR that has been registered against him.

The police have accused Gosavi of duping Tare and Keni of Rs 1.65 lakh on the pretext of finding jobs for them in Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur.

The complaint states that Gosavi allegedly gave fake tourist visas and flight tickets to Tare and Keni, according to The Indian Express.

On October 6, Nationalist Congress Party spokesperson Nawab Malik alleged that Gosavi and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Manish Bhanushali took part in the Narcotics Control Bureau’s raid on a cruise ship in a drugs case, after which Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was arrested.

Gosavi was seen in a selfie he had clicked with Aryan Khan inside the Narcotics Control Bureau office. Malik had questioned whether the agency had the authority to allow private citizens to take part in such raids.

The Narcotics Control Bureau, however, claimed that…

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