Former Narcotics Control Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede. The Bombay High Court on Friday granted temporary relief to former Narcotics Zonal Director officer Sameer Wankhede by directing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) not to take any coercive action against him till May 22 in a corruption and extortion case. Affidavit to appear before CBI office on Saturday. file | Photo Credit: PTI
The Bombay High Court on Friday granted temporary relief to former Narcotics Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede by directing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) not to take any coercive action against him till May 22 in a corruption and extortion case. Promised to appear before the CBI office on Saturday.
Mr Wankhede, an Indian Revenue Service officer posted at the NCB office in Mumbai, moved a vacation bench of the High Court on Friday, seeking protection from arrest in the case. The central agency had issued summons to him. However, he did not appear before the CBI after the Delhi High Court granted him protection till May 22 in the same case and directed him to approach the Bombay High Court.
Mr Wankhede came into the limelight in October 2021 following a high-profile raid on a Mumbai cruise by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), following which the agency arrested actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan and 19 others and claimed Was that some intoxicants have also been recovered.
Former Zonal Director of NCB filed a First Information Report (FIR) alleging corruption and serious irregularities due to which an “independent witness” in the cruise ship case allegedly extorted ₹25 from Shree’s family along with others. A conspiracy was hatched to extort Rs. Mine. The NCB alleged that as per the findings of its vigilance wing, Mr Wankhede had not properly disclosed his foreign trips and had clearly misrepresented the expenditure incurred on his foreign trips. He also did not properly declare the source of foreign visits. Further, he was involved in selling and buying expensive wrist watches with a private entity, Viral Rajan, without informing the concerned authorities.
Mr Wankhede, however, urged the court to quash the FIR against him by the CBI, claiming the FIR was an act of vendetta, and sought a cross-FIR against NCB Deputy Director General Gyaneshwar Singh.