Sameer Wankhede has stated he wasn’t even in service when the case occurred.
Mumbai:
Responding to one more allegation from Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik that his household is concerned within the medicine enterprise, anti-drugs workplace Sameer Wankhede has stated he wasn’t even in service when the case occurred. Mr Wankhede is the Mumbai zonal head of the Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) and was a part of the group that arrested Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan and others within the drug-on-cruise case off the shore of Mumbai. “I wasn’t even in service when the case occurred in Jan 2008. I married Kranti Redkar in 2017, then how am I related to the case anyway?” he instructed information company ANI.
Nationalist Congress Occasion (NCP) chief and Maharashtra’s minister for minority affairs Nawab Malik had questioned Mr Wankhede’s sister-in-law’s involvement in a medicine case. He shared screenshots with the case particulars in a tweet. “Sameer Dawood Wankhede, is your sister-in-law Harshada Dinanath Redkar concerned within the drug enterprise? You should reply as a result of her case is pending earlier than the Pune courtroom. Right here is the proof,” he stated.
Sameer Dawood Wankhede, is your sister-in-law Harshada Dinanath Redkar concerned within the drug enterprise ?
You should reply as a result of her case is pending earlier than the Pune courtroom.
Right here is the proof pic.twitter.com/FAiTys156F— Nawab Malik نواب ملک नवाब मलिक (@nawabmalikncp) November 8, 2021
Mr Wankhede’s father Dnyaneshwar Wankhede has additionally filed a defamation case in opposition to Nawab Malik for 1.25 crore for dragging his household within the drugs-on-cruise case. He has additionally requested the Mumbai Excessive Courtroom to ban the media from reporting information on his household.
The anti-drugs officer has been within the crosshairs of the minister who had earlier additionally shared purported WhatsApp chats of his sister Yasmeen Wankhede with an alleged drug peddler on Twitter. “Screenshot of the WhatsApp chat between Yasmeen Dawood Wankhede (sister of NCB official Sameer Dawood Wankhede) and a drug peddler. The query arises, is that this morally, ethically, and legally proper?” he had tweeted on Tuesday. The minister has additionally accused Mr Wankhede of attempting to extort cash from Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan after kidnapping his son and forging a caste certificates to get his job.
Ms Wankhede had slammed the minister and accused him of taking out his “private vendetta for his son-in-law’s arrest” by dragging ladies into the continued tussle between him and the probe company.
Mr Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan had been summoned by the NCB after they discovered proof of transactions price Rs 20,000 with an accused in one other medicine case. He was arrested in January – over 200 kg of what the company stated had been medicine, however Mr Malik claimed was “natural tobacco” – and was granted bail in September.
Sameer Khan’s case was amongst six circumstances transferred out of the Narcotics Management Bureau’s Mumbai unit on Friday night and handed to a particular investigation group to be led by senior police officer Sanjay Singh. The circumstances embrace that of Aryan Khan and others within the drugs-on-cruise case. They had been transferred after extortion allegations in opposition to the anti-drugs officer.
