—Anil Narendra
You will remember that on October 2, 2021, in the famous cruise drug case, Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was arrested by Sameer Wankhede for possession of drugs. The innocent Aryan Khan spent four weeks in jail unnecessarily in the case. It was later revealed that the whole case was false and Aryan was released and given a clean chit by the court.
There was a lot of uproar at that time and various allegations were leveled against Sameer Wankhede. He was transferred from the Mumbai Narcotic Control Bureau. Now news has come that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan against former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officer Sameer Wankhede and four others in connection with the seizure of banned drugs from a cruise ship. An FIR has been lodged on the allegation of demanding a bribe of Rs 25 crore for not being punished. The officers provided this information. He told that after this their premises were searched. He said that Aryan Khan was arrested in this case on October 2, 2021. The NCB had filed a charge sheet in this case and given a clean chit to Aryan Khan. A Special Investigation Team (SINT) constituted by the NCB had claimed that there were lapses in the Wankhede-led probe. He said searches were conducted at 29 locations in Mumbai, Delhi, Ranchi and Kanpur.
It is alleged that IRS officer Wankhede and others had allegedly demanded Rs 25 crore for not framing Aryan Khan in a drug case, officials said. The officials received information that the officer and his accomplice had allegedly taken an amount of Rs 50 lakh as advance. Wankhede was the chief of Mumbai’s NCB at the time of Aryan Khan’s arrest. Apart from IRS officer Sameer Wankhede, the FIR has been registered against the then Superintendent NCB Vishwa Vinay Singh, the then Intelligence Officer of NCB’s Mumbai zone unit Ashish Ranjan, two others KP Goswami and Sunville Dyuza, in the conspiracy case. At that time Sameer Khankhede was the Zonal Director of the Mumbai Narcotics Board.
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