Prabhakar Sail the witness of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) during the Cordelia Cruise ship drugs case dies on Friday, April 01. His lawyer Tushar Khandare said that he passed away around 4 pm due to a heart attack. Prabhakar Sail was at his residence in Mahul area of Chembur when he took his last breath. He was questioned in the drugs case involving superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s elder son Aryan Khan. He put allegations of corruption against NCB witnesses Kiran Gosavi and Sameer Wankhede, the officer in charge of the case.
The news of his shocking demise was tweeted, “NCB’s panch witness in Cordelia cruise drug case, Prabhakar Sail died yesterday. As per his lawyer Tushar Khandare, he died of a heart attack at his residence in the Mahul area of Chembur yesterday.”
He was the bodyguard of NCB witness Kiran Gosavi and alleged that Gosavi took Rs 50 lakh from an individual after the raid at the cruise ship. Sali had said, “I worked as a bodyguard of Kiran Gosavi. I assisted him during the Mumbai cruise drugs case.”
The NCB named Sail as a “hostile witness” in its affidavit in court. On October 18, a case was registered against Gosavi, the man who was seen approaching Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan at Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) office in connection with the drugs-on-cruise matter.
An NCB team busted an alleged drugs party on the Cordelia Cruise ship which was on its way to Goa at mid-sea on October 2, 2021. A total of 20 people, including Aryan, were arrested in the case.