Mumbai: State home minister Dilip Walse Patil said on Monday that “we have gone through Prabhakar Sail’s affidavit” in which he levelled allegations against NCB. Walse Patil said, “He has said he fears for his life. We have given him police protection as his wish.” On Monday, Sail visited the Mumbai police headquarters to lodge a complaint. Sources said he was asked to approach Sahar police station, under whose jurisdiction he stays. Sahar police said they are looking into the complaint.

K P Gosavi, for his part, clarified that the selfie with Aryan Khan that had gone viral after the October 2 raid was taken on the cruise terminal and not at the NCB office. He said he had received information about the drugs racket from a source and had informed the NCB. He said there was a threat to his life.

Gosavi, who claims to run a private detective agency, is one of nine independent witnesses. There are offences of cheating registered against him in Thane and Pune. Pune police recently issued a lookout circular against him in connection with a 2018 cheating case. In an interview to electronic media, Gosavi said he was very much available in Mumbai till October 6, but as he started getting threat calls from unknown numbers, he had to go into hiding.

Recalling the sequence of events of the NCB raid, he said that as he got information on the drugs, he passed it on to NCB officials, and when he went to the cruise, he first met NCB superintendent V V Singh and later met Wankhede. Until then he did not know about Wankhede, he said. In the early hours of October 3, Sail claimed that while escorting Gosavi, he overheard him discussing a demand of Rs. 25 crore and his willingness to “settle” at Rs. 18 crore, of which Rs. 8 crore was to be allegedly paid to Wankhede.

Meanwhile, TOI visited Adarsh building in Waghbil, Thane, where Gosavi used to live. A security guard there said, “Gosavi lived as a tenant on the 2nd floor for a couple of months. He used to come with a woman and a bodyguard in an SUV, which had a metal plate with ‘police’ written on it. He mostly used to come late night and kept changing vehicles, but with the ‘police’ plate inside.” The guard added, “Most of the time, he used to move around like a cop, holding two mobiles and a cigarette case.” He said Gosavi left the place around the time of the Ganesh festival. The guard said a couple of days ago, a team of Pune police and local cops had come to the place.

TOI visited another locked flat in Sector 28, Vashi. A guard said, “Gosavi came to stay with his wife here in September. Ever since his name flashed on TV, he stopped visiting.”

—Inputs from Nishikant Karlikar & George Mendonca