The famous Drugs-on-cruise-ship case has taken an interesting turn again. NCB has transferred the case from Mumbai team to the Delhi counterparts. Director of NCB Mumbai Zone, Sameer Wankhade is in the middle of controversial allegations and has proved rumor false of him getting removed from the case.
The case is popular because great actor Shahrukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was detained in this case and got bail about a week ago after spending 26 days in jail. Along with this case, five other cases have been transferred anti-drug agency’s Mumbai zonal unit to its Central team. The order of this transfer was issued by NCB’s director general SN Pradhan. Officer in NCB stated that the action has been taken on “administrative grounds”, and as these five cases have “wider and inter-state ramifications” they needed to be transferred.
The transfer order came when Sameer Wankhade, Mumbai Zonal director of NCB is facing allegations of forging documents for government job, bribery, extortion and that he has an ‘expensive’ lifestyle which he cannot afford. He is in denial right now but stuck in middle of these controversies and allegations just after the Drugs-on-cruise-ship case.
The rumors spread fast that Wankhade was removed from the case but Wankhade has refuted those claims and it was his writ petition that the matter was transferred to central team. Moreover, the NCB also confirmed that no officer was removed from their roles and they would assist the investigation if required. Sources in the NCB report that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by Senior IPS officer Sanjay Singh, who is the Deputy Director-General (Operations) has been formed to work on these transferred cases. They will camp in Mumbai to take the investigation forward.
