Following actor’s arrest in drugs case, NCB tells court that it has recovered some WhatsApp chats and a voice note shared between Ajaz and Shadab
Actor Ajaz Khan outside Killa court on Wednesday. Pic/Suresh Karkera
Sources in the NCB said that Ajaz was in contact with Shadab over the past couple of years and had bought drugs from him several times. The agency presented the actor before the court and said that they had recovered some WhatsApp chats and a voice note shared between Ajaz and Shadab, which suggest that they were involved in drug dealing.
An NCB officer told mid-day, “In this case we have received digital evidence on the basis of which we arrested Ajaz. We will question him. Shadab told us that Ajaz buys drugs regularly from him but we need to check whether he sells or consumes those.”
NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede said, “Shadab was arrested last week and Ajaz was in contact with him. We suspect Ajaz may have deleted the WhatsApp chats between Shadab and him. We will send Ajaz’s mobile phone to the forensic lab.”
Ajaz’s advocate Ayaz Khan said, “The voice note that the NCB has received is a year old and no drugs have been recovered from Ajaz’s house. The medicines which have been found in his house belong to his wife.”
