Nawab Malik is paying the price for exposing the farce behind the case and the real face of the Bharatiya Janata Party – Sanjay Raut

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Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut has congratulated Nationalist Congress Party leader Nawab Malik for ‘exposing’ the farce behind the ‘drugs on cruise’ case involving Aryan Khan, son Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan.

Talking to reporters in Kolhapur, Raut said Malik is paying the price for exposing the farce behind the case and the real face of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Friday gave a clean chit to Aryan Khan in the ‘drugs on cruise’ case, in which he was arrested and spent 22 days in jail.

NCB officials said Aryan and five others were not named in the agency’s chargesheet due to ‘lack of sufficient evidence’.

Malik, a Maharashtra minister, had launched a veritable campaign against the then NCB officer Sameer Wankhede, accusing him of implicating Aryan Khan in a false case to extort money from his father Shah Rukh Khan.

Malik was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in February in connection with a money laundering probe linked to the activities of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides.

“I congratulate Nawab Malik for exposing the farce behind the case and taking it to its logical end. He unmasked the BJP, for which he is paying a price,” Raut said.

Asked whether the Sena would demand action against Wankhede, Raut said, “Why should we demand? Can’t the government see how he implicated a young boy in a false drug case and destroyed his life. The boy was jailed for a month. Is this justice?”