Sameer Wankhede seeks special security from Mumbai Police
Mumbai (IANS) | Ahead of a hearing in the Bombay High Court, former Mumbai zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), IRS officer Sameer Wankhede on Monday said he would seek special protection from the Mumbai Police as there was a threat to his life. Wankhede, currently embroiled in an alleged extortion case related to the sensational raid on the Cordelia cruise ship in which Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan was among those arrested, in a brief interaction with private Marathi TV channels Said.
He said that he has been receiving various threats, including on social media, and will soon meet the Mumbai police commissioner with a request to this effect.
Wankhede said that he has been raising the issue of exposure several times in the past, after the CBI filed an FIR against him.
As per the High Court’s directions last Friday, the IRS officer was questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for two days, for about five hours a day.
In the previous hearing, the Bombay High Court had granted relief from any coercive action till May 22 to Wankhede, a 2008 batch IRS officer, whose role has come under the radar of the CBI during the raid on the Cordelia cruise ship on October 2, 2021.
Nawab Malik, a former minister in the Maha Vikas Aghadi government and leader of the Nationalist Congress Party, and Prabhakar Sail, a witness in the cruise raid (who died last year) made several allegations of corruption against Wankhede and the raiding team. Were.
However, Wankhede has denied all the allegations leveled against him and expressed full faith in the judiciary, the central government and the CBI to bring him justice.
Subsequently, Wankhede was cleared of the cruise raid case and an internal inquiry was subsequently conducted regarding the allegations against him, even as the NCB suspended Aryan Khan in May 2022 for ‘lack of evidence against him’. Clean chit was given.
Besides Wankhede, the CBI has booked two other NCB officers, Vishwa Vijay Singh and Ashish Ranjan, and witnesses in the ship case, KP Gosavi and Sanvil D’Souza.
–IANS
