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Malik's son-in-law sent to NCB custody over drugs financing charges

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 1/15/2021 11:27:37 AM

Mumbai, Jan 14 Alocal court in Mumbai sent Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik's 35- year-old son-in-law, Sameer Khan, to Narcotics Control Bureau's custody till January 18. The NCB told Magistrate AH Kashikar of the 8th Esplanade Court that Sameer Khan was financing an illegal drugs business. The NCB had summoned and later arrested Sameer Khan, who runs a real estate business, on Wednesday for allegedly making online transactions of lakhs of rupees with two persons arrested on January 9 after 200 kg of marijuana was seized from British national Karan Sajnani’s house in Bandra. The NCB said Karan Sajnani had imported the marijuana from the US by courier. At a factory in Uttar Pradesh, he was mixing marijuana with tobacco and CBD oil to sell it as a herbal product., the NCB said. Sajnani's partner, Rahila Furniturewala paid through her credit card for the contraband and was receiving money for the herbal product sold as well, the NCB said. It was one such transaction that led the NCB to Mumbai's Mucchad Panwala from whose premises about 500 gm of contraband was seized.