'Days after the raid, when I was in Ahmedabad, Manish Bhanushali and others asked me to come to Delhi to video-record my statement regarding the case as per their directions. But I knew one Sam D'Souza, who had good relations with the agency, and got him connected to them,' he said. 'That day, Dhawal Bhanushali, a close friend of Manish Bhanushali, rang me and said that one big drug party would be held on a cruise in Mumbai and asked me whether I would like part of the raid on it, but I refused. Patil said that on October 1, a day before the NCB raid, he, Bhanushali and K P Gosavi, another witness in the case who has been arrested in a cheating case now, were staying in a hotel in Ahmedabad.

The tip-off was given to Manish Bhanushali by Bhopal-based man Neeraj Yadav, a BJP worker in MP.' In an interview to a news channel, Patil said, 'I neither gave any tip-off about the cruise drugs party, nor I am the mastermind. Merchant and Dhamecha were arrested with Aryan Khan and were later released on bail. Patil claimed that Manish Bhanushali, NCB's witness in the cruise drugs case, had sent him a list of persons who were going to board the cruise ship, but the names of Aryan Khan and Arbaaz Merchant were not there in the list, although it contained the name of Munmun Dhamecha. Aryan Khan, son of actor Shah Rukh Khan, was arrested in the case along with 19 others, and was later granted bail by the Bombay High Court.

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) had on October 2 conducted a raid, led by its zonal director Sameer Wankhede, on a cruise ship off Mumbai coast, from which drugs were allegedly seized.

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