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Sameer Wankhede, Blamed For 'Shoddy' Probe In Aryan Khan Case, Transferred To Chennai

IRS officer Sameer Wankhede was the zonal director of NCB Mumbai and was posted in the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence.

New Delhi: Former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officer Sameer Wankhede, who arrested Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan in the cruise drugs case, has been transferred to Chennai, as reported by news agency ANI. According to the order, Sameer Wankhede has been transferred from Directorate General of Analytics and Risk Management (DGARM) Mumbai to Director General of Taxpayers Service, Chennai. Recently, the Narcotics Control Bureau’s charge sheet gave a clean chit to actor Shah Rukh Khan's son, sources told news agency ANI.  

IRS officer Sameer Wankhede was the zonal director of NCB Mumbai and was posted in the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence. 

NCB officials, which filed its chargesheet in a Mumbai court, said Aryan Khan and five others had not been named due to "lack of sufficient evidence".

Also Read: Aryan Khan Clean Chit: Govt Orders Action Against Ex-NCB Official Sameer Wankhede For 'Shoddy Investigation'

"It is learnt that the government has asked Competent Authority to take appropriate action against ex-NCB official Sameer Wankhede for his shoddy investigation into Aryan Khan drugs haul case. Government has already taken action in Wankhede's fake caste certificate case," sources told ANI on Friday.

Wankhede is an Indian Revenue Service officer and the finance ministry is the nodal authority to take the action against him.

Apart from Aryan Khan, the NCB also gave clean chits to Avin Sahu, Gopal Anand, Samir Sehgal, Bhaskar Arora and Manav Singhal. While Sahu was a guest on the ship Cordelia Cruise, others were the organisers of the alleged rave party on board.

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