'BJP leader's relative freed after cruise raid': NCP leader's big charge, says 'proof today'

Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik has made a sensational charge on the NCB regarding the cruise ship drug bust.

He has said that one of the people detained and later released by the anti-drug agency after the Mumbai drugs bust was the in-law of a BJP leader.

Malik has promised to disclose evidence to show that the NCB let go of a BJP leader's relative. The state minister also accused the agency of running a "network" in Mumbai for the last one year "for only and only publicity".

Pointing out that from stars such as Rhea Chakraborty to
Deepika Padukone, and now Aryan Khan, the NCB will only act wherever there is publicity involved. "Many of the cases are fake, no recovery has been made," Malik charged.

On Thursday, the NCP leader had shared a video showing a BJP leader and a private detective were at the NCB team on the night of the cruise ship raid.

So, is Malik's crusade against NCB only political or there is a personal angle too? On political front, he has accused the anti-drug agency of working to defame Maharashtra and Bollywood at the behest of the BJP.

On personal level, Malik's own son-in-law Sameer Khan was also arrested in January by the NCB in the drugs case and spent 9 months in jail before getting bail.