In the Mumbai Cruise Drugs Case involving Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, amid the order of a Vigilance Inquiry against top official Sameer Wankhede. The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) can transfer and send a new officer here. The Minister of Maharashtra Government and the witness of the case have made serious allegations against Wankhede.
News18 quoted top NCB sources as saying that the issue of Wankhede as the investigating officer in the Aryan Khan case came up during a meeting of top officials of the agency on Monday.
The officials believed that since a vigilance inquiry has been ordered against Wankhede, it is not right for them to investigate the Aryan Khan case further. The agency will take a final call after CVO Dnyaneshwar Singh’s visit to Mumbai on Wednesday, but top officials are contemplating the change.
The NCB on Monday ordered a vigilance inquiry into the claims made by a witness in the cruise drugs case alleging extortion of Rs 25 crore by some more officials of the agency, including Mumbai zonal director Wankhede, to release accused Aryan Khan. Had put.
Prabhakar Sail, an independent witness in the cruise drugs case, claimed in an affidavit on Sunday and in conversation with journalists in Mumbai that an NCB official and some other people connected with the case had paid Rs 25 crore to drop Aryan Khan from the investigation. Had demanded Rs.
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SAIL said he was the body guard of another witness in the case KP Gosavi, who has been on the run since the NCB raid on the cruise terminal off the Mumbai coast on October 3, in which 20 people, including Khan, were arrested.
SAIL also claimed that it had seen Gosavi meeting Shah Rukh Khan’s manager and was asked to sign “9-10 blank pages” in the presence of Wankhede after the cruise raid.
Dnyaneshwar Singh told PTI, “We have received an affidavit and a report from our DDG (South-West Zone) based in Mumbai and the Director General of NCB has taken cognizance of this report. He has marked it to the Vigilance Section for investigation. “
“We are a professional organization and we are open to investigation against any allegations against our employees. The investigation will be transparent and fair,” he said.
When asked whether the investigation in the Cruise case would remain in Wankhede’s hands till the completion of the investigation against Wankhede? Singh said that it is too early to say this and as the investigation progresses and evidence is collected, we will take a decision on it.
Officials said the NCB probe will look into all aspects of the claims made by the cell and will also record the versions of the 2008 batch customs cadre of the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) Wankhede and more officials of the Mumbai zone unit involved in the drugs case.
Wankhede has denied all the allegations against him in this case. The officer also wrote to Mumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale on Sunday, seeking protection from possible legal action by unidentified persons for falsely implicating him in connection with an alleged vigilance issue against him.
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