The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has dismissed one of its senior officers, Vishwa Vijay Singh, who was involved in the drug case of actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son, Aryan Khan. Singh was reportedly terminated from service in connection with another case in which he was placed under suspension in April 2022 and an inquiry was ordered. After taking into consideration the inquiry report findings, Singh was dismissed.
Singh was one of the NCB personnel who raided Cordelia Cruise in Mumbai and arrested Aryan Khan along with others in the ‘drugs-on-cruise’ case in October 2021. Aryan Khan spent 22 days in jail and was given a clean chit by NCB in May 2022 due to “lack of sufficient evidence”. Another officer, Vishwanath Tiwari, who pursued the same case, has also been dismissed by the NCB for a 2016 case that was pending against him. The NCB found certain issues of misconduct during the inquiry, following which a decision was taken to remove Singh from service.
History Of The Aryan Khan Case
As for the case, readers would recall that Sameer Wankhede and his team had arrested seventeen high-profile names in connection to the case and had alleged seized 13 gms of cocaine, 22 pills of Ecstasy (MDMA), 21 gms of marijuana, and 5 gms of mephedrone along with Rs. 1.33 lakhs during their raid. Among them was also Aryan Khan who eventually received bail on October 28. The star kid was later given clean chit because of insufficient evidence. Followed by certain discrepancies during the raid as well as for providing witnesses with prior crime records, the NCB Mumbai team was placed under vigilance inquiry in November 2022. Post the inquiry, department ordered action against seven officers, retaining their anonymity.
