India, Nov. 14 -- Mohammed Salim Mohammed Suhail Shaikh is known as Lavish in the narcotics trade world. His claims of rave parties attended by film and fashion celebs seem to attest to that nickname. Shaikh, an accused in a mephedrone seizure case, has told Mumbai Police that he used to organise rave parties in the country and abroad for film and fashion celebrities as well as gangsters, including Alishah Parkar, the nephew of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.

Shaikh was deported from Dubai last month and is currently in the custody of the Ghatkopar unit of the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC). According to news agency PTI, officials claimed that during interrogation, Shaikh alleged that he used to organise drug parties in the country and abroad,...