Cruise drugs case: PIL in Supreme Court seeks CBI probe, direction to Centre to frame witness protection scheme
The Hindu
The PIL also raised the legality of a complaint lodged with the Mumbai Police by a local lawyer using the alleged disclosure of a bribe saga by one of the witnesses
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the Mumbai drugs-on-cruise case alleging that there has been interference in the ongoing probe of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the matter.
The case involves Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son and others as accused and has triggered a series of controversies and put the bureau and its officials under the spotlight.
The PIL has also sought a direction to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to frame the national witness protection scheme as recommended in various reports of the Law Commission.
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