Prabhakar Sail, a witness of the probe agency Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the drugs case linked to Aryan Khan, Shah Rukh Khan’s son, died on Friday. Sail was aged 36 and died of a heart attack at his home, according to his lawyer.

Prabhakar Sail was said to be a key witness in the case based on a conversation he reportedly overheard, according to which a payoff of Rs 25 crore was discussed.

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Of the total alleged payoff amount, Rs 8 crore was meant for Sameer Wankhede, the officer who was previously leading the probe by the NCB, as per the claims.

Earlier, Wankhede had denied all allegations against him amid a political row. However, he was later transferred.

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Sail was the bodyguard of KP Gosavi – another NCB witness in the drugs-on-cruise case – whose selfie with Aryan Khan had gone viral after a Goa-bound cruise ship was busted. 

His employer Kiran P Gosavi had a conversation with one Sam D’Souza, Sail had claimed in his affidavit.

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“You put a bomb of 25 crores and let’s settle at 18 final, because we have to give 8 crores to Sameer Wankhede,” Gosavi told a certain person named Sam D’Souza,” the affidavit read.

Last year in October Aryan Khan got bail in the high-profile drugs case after spending several weeks in jail. Recently, a special Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) court gave an extension of 60 days to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the NCB for filing a charge-sheet in the case.