The sub-plot has taken centre-stage. From Aryan Khan, whom the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested in a drug raid on a cruise ship on October 2, the focus has now shifted to the agency’s Mumbai zone Director Sameer Wankhede.
On October 26, Maharashtra Minorities Minister Nawab Malik forwarded a letter to NCB Director General S.N. Pradhan, alleging that the agency had been running an extortion racket and had framed a number of people in false cases in the past. Malik said he received the letter—which listed 26 cases of past wrongdoings by Wankhede—from an “unnamed” NCB official. “My fight is not against the NCB, but against this one man who has used a fake certificate to get this job and has illegally tapped phones of some people in Thane and Mumbai,” Malik said.
The NCB has now ordered a vigilance inquiry into the allegations against Wankhede, and the drugs case seems to have taken a back seat. On his part, the officer said it was personal vendetta as he had once arrested Malik’s son-in-law, Samir Khan, in a drugs case.
The latest attack on Wankhede came from Shekhar Kamble, a witness who alleged that the officer had taken his signature on ten blank pages during a raid in an old case. Kamble also said that, after the Prabhakar Sail allegations, he was afraid that Wankhede might frame him in a false case.
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