Cruise Drugs Case: Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede’s troubles may increase after the charges of witness recovery in the Mumbai cruise party drug case. NCB has ordered a vigilance inquiry against Sameer Wankhede in Aryan Khan drugs case. A witness had accused Wankhede of bribery in the alleged drugs case involving actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan.
In this case, on the question of removal of Sameer Wankhede, DDG Dnyaneshwar Singh of NCB said that some facts were circulated on social media through the affidavit of an independent witness. Taking this cognizance, DG NCB has ordered Vigilance to investigate. Further action will be decided based on the evidence. Whether Wankhede will continue in his post after this investigation, there is a cloud of doubt on it.
Gyaneshwar Singh told news agency ANI that a report from DDG SWR was received by our DG, he has marked the Vigilance Section for an investigation… Chief Vigilance Officer Appropriately Will deal with the investigation…the investigation has just started, no official has the right to comment.
Meanwhile, Sameer Wankhede reached a special court in Mumbai on Monday in connection with the recovery charges against him in the drugs case. NCB and Wankheed have given affidavits in the court. The NCB had arrested Shah Rukh Khan’s 23-year-old son Aryan Khan and a few others after raiding a Goa-bound cruise ship off the Mumbai coast on October 3. The agency claimed to have seized drugs from Cruise.
The agency and Wankhede said in an affidavit filed in the court that this is an attempt to create hurdles in the case and obstruct the investigation. The NCB has requested in the affidavit that the tampering of evidence in the case should not hamper the investigation, while Wankhede dismissed all the charges against him.
In fact, independent witness in the case Prabhakar Sail had on Sunday claimed that an NCB official and allegedly absconding witness KP Gosavi among others have demanded Rs 25 crore to release Aryan Khan.
Sail told reporters that after Aryan was brought to the NCB office on October 3, he had heard Gosavi over phone talking to a man named Sam D’Souza about demanding Rs 25 crore and fixing the case for Rs 18 crore. Because he had to give eight crore rupees to Sameer Wankhede. Sal had claimed that he would soon present the evidence as well.
The NCB and Wankhede have refuted these claims in their affidavits submitted to the court on Monday. Wankhede on Sunday wrote a letter to the Mumbai Police Commissioner, seeking protection from planned legal action against unidentified persons for implicating them in an alleged vigilance related case.
Wankhede, a 2008 batch IRS officer, without naming anyone, claimed that highly respected public figures have threatened to send him to jail and dismissal through the media. Aryan Khan is currently lodged in Arthur Jail in Mumbai in a drug case. The Bombay High Court will hear his bail plea on Tuesday.
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