The authorities has requested the Competent Authority to take motion in opposition to former NCB official Sameer Wankhede for his shoddy investigation into the Mumbai drugs-on-cruise case which concerned Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan, reported information company ANI quoting sources.
The improvement comes after Aryan Khan was given a clear chit by the Narcotics Control Bureau within the October 2021 drugs-on-cruise case through which he was arrested final yr.
The names of Khan and 5 others had been dropped within the chargesheet filed by the anti-drugs company in reference to the case. Officials of the NCB, which filed its chargesheet in a Mumbai courtroom, stated Aryan Khan and 5 others had not been named resulting from “lack of sufficient evidence”.
India Today quoted NCB Deputy Director-General Sanjay Singh saying that there was an error by the primary probe staff, which was led by Sameer Wankhede.
On November 5, 2021, the NCB eliminated Mumbai zonal unit Sameer Wankhede from the case and transferred the investigation to its operations unit based mostly in Delhi. Wankhede was dealing with a departmental vigilance probe after an impartial witness within the case claimed extortion bid by these concerned.
Wankhede had led the NCB raid on a
a high-profile drug social gathering on a Cordelia cruise liner en route from Mumbai to Goa on October 2 final yr. Minor amount of cocaine, mephedrone, charas, hydroponic weed, MDMA, and Rs 1,33,000 in money had been seized. The NCB apprehended eight individuals, together with Aryan, whereas letting six others go. The quantity elevated to twenty through the course of the investigations.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”