Several people were detained following a raid on a party on a cruise ship off the coast of Mumbai by NCB (the Narcotics Control Bureau), sources said on Saturday.?
According to sources, The NCB team boarded the ship disguised as passengers based on a tip. They said that the anti-drugs agency seized banned substances that were allegedly being consumed at a party on board the ship.?
According to them, the party began after the ship left Mumbai and was at sea.?The NCB investigators, who raided?Cordelia cruise?after it departed from Mumbai, seized cocaine, hashish, and MD.?
"So far, no arrest has been made by us," Sameer Wankhede, NCB Zonal Director, said while speaking to media, reported news agency ANI."We have intercepted some persons. The probe is underway. Drugs have been recovered. We are investigating 8-10 persons,"
Mr. Wankhede told the reporters."I can't comment on it," added Mr. Wankhede when asked, "Was any celebrity present at the party?"?
However, later on, ANI cited NCB officials as saying that children of prominent Bollywood actors were also being investigated in connection with the raid.?
A news18 report claims?that all six cruise party organizers?will be summoned by NCB Mumbai today at 11 am. Organizers are also likely to be arrested.?
A Bollywood stars' son whose name is being speculated highly has informed the NCB that he was on the VVIP list of the cruise and didn't have to pay the entry fees.
"Shah Rukh KhanĄ¯s son, Aryan Khan is being questioned by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in its Ballard Estate office at south Mumbai. He was on a cruise ship where agency raided in the night and busted rave partyĄą, said zonal director Sameer Wankhede of the NCB.
The NCB has been actively working on anti-drug cases since last year. A big case it has been handling includes a charge sheet over an alleged "drugs syndicate" that named 33 people, including actor Rhea Chakraborty, related to the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
Last month, the directorate of revenue intelligence seized close to 3,000kg of heroin at Gujarat's Mundra port. It recovered around 37 kilograms of the narcotic drug and other contraband items from Delhi and Noida.
(With inputs from ANI and PTI. Indiatimes independently could not verify the news)?