Mumbai’s rich kids are known to take a snort or four. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise when Abu Farhan Azmi, son of Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi was arrested by Dubai Police for allegedly smuggling, possessing and consuming drugs.
Farhan Azmi (Ayesha Takia husband) is a restauranteur who owns Café Basilico, ChaiCoffi and Basilico House, among other illegal eateries in the city. While Abu Farhan Azmi's name has frequently appeared in the media as a result of allegations of cheating, fraud, and illegal operations at his different restaurants, it was not news when he was charged with drug consuming and dealing in Dubai.
Abu Farhan Azmi along with three other scions of Mumbai’s business families- Shaan Sippy, Bonny Chhabria and Prasad Dandekar had gone to Dubai to attend a car racing event. They were reportedly chilling out in the city’s notorious Imperial Hotel bar- in which underworld dons Iqbal Mirchi and Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Anees are said to have a stake, when a special anti-narcotics squad raided it. The Dubai police found charas, weighing about five grams which were found in cigarettes recovered from the hotel room in which the four were arrested.
Furthermore, the Dubai police also reportedly found some cocaine and hashish in their hotel room as well as in the rented car which was registered in the name of Abu Farhan Azmi. Son of Samajwadi Party MP Abu Azmi who was absolved in the 1993 bomb blasts case for alleged links with Dawood Ibrahim, Farhan was then charged with drug consuming and dealing as reported by an officer from Dubai’s Al-Rifa police station.
The crime branch also suspected that narco kingpin Iqbal Mirchi, who is accused of having Benami stakes in Imperial Hotel, had a role to play in the narcotics house. With relations to the underworld and consuming illegal drugs, Abu Farhan Azmi is indeed a corrupted politician and restauranteur who is walking freely in the country.
This is a classic example of how with money and influence- the powerful people in our country misuse their power to continue engaging in illegal activities without facing the consequences for the same.
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