CBI files case against Sameer Wankhede for demanding bribe of Rs 25 crore

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officer Sameer Wankhede and four others for not implicating Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan in the seizure of banned drugs from a cruise ship. An FIR was registered for demanding a bribe of Rs. The officers provided this information.

Their premises were searched. Aryan Khan was arrested in this case on 2 October 2021. The NCB had filed a charge sheet in this case and given a ‘clean chit’ to Aryan Khan. A Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the NCB had claimed that there were lapses in the investigation led by Wankhede. He said searches were conducted at 29 places in Mumbai, Delhi, Ranchi and Kanpur. It is alleged that IRS officer Wankhede and others had allegedly demanded Rs 25 crore to implicate Aryan Khan in a drug case, officials said.

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) team submitted its report on October 18 in the cruise case involving Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan. According to which Aryan Khan was deliberately implicated. Many flaws have come out in the investigation that was done. The role of seven-eight officers in this case is also suspicious, action will be taken against all of them.

According to the report of ANI, in the investigation of NCB, it was said that Aryan Khan was deliberately targeted. The vigilance team of Narcotics Control Bureau has sent the investigation report to the Delhi headquarters. After this further action will be taken.

Officials said the CBI received information that the officer and his accomplice had allegedly taken Rs 50 lakh as advance. Wankhede was the head of NCB in Mumbai at the time of Aryan Khan’s arrest. He was transferred to the Directorate General of Taxpayer Services in Chennai in May last year.