'It's A Murky Business': Nawab Malik Claims To Expose Nexus Between NCB Officer Sameer Wankhede & Some BJP Leaders

“I am going to expose some BJP leaders and their connections with NCB officer Sameer Wankhede in the winter session starting from December 7,” Malik told reporters in Mumbai, PTI reported.

NCP leader Nawab Malik. (File Photo)

New Delhi: Escalating his attack on NCB’s Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede, Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Friday said he would expose some Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and their alleged connection with the officer in the winter session of the state legislature to be held in December.

“I am going to expose some BJP leaders and their connections with NCB officer Sameer Wankhede in the winter session starting from December 7,” Malik told reporters in Mumbai, PTI reported.

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“It will be a stormy session and once those names are out, the BJP leaders will not be able to show their face in public,” he added.

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson also referred to his “Picture is not over yet” tweet posted on Thursday after the Bombay High Court granted bail to Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan in the drugs-on-cruise case stating the picture will end with Wankhede losing his job.

“The picture will be over with Sameer Wankhede losing his job and facing legal action for forging documents to get recruited via reserved quota for SC category. He was born in a Muslim family, but he forged his birth certificate to get this job,” said Malik.

Earlier on Thursday, the NCP spokesperson tweeted in Hindi: “The picture is still not complete my friend.”

Wankhede was born as a Muslim, but forged documents, including a caste certificate, to show that he belonged to the Hindu SC category to get a job under quota after clearing the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examination, Malik claimed.

Alleging that Fashion TV head Kashif Khan had organised the alleged drugs party on the Cordelia cruise ship, Malik said the former is “notorious for distribution of drugs, for running sex and pornography racket and had posted the advertisement of Cordelia drug party on social media”.

“Despite that the intelligent officers of the NCB did not call him for any inquiry or probe,” he added.

The Maharashtra minister claimed that an official of the NCB even told him that Wankhede opposed them whenever they tried to take action against Kashif Khan.

“It is a murky business and more such cases will surface in the coming days,” he said.

Commenting on his tweet further, the Maharashtra minister said: “Sanjay Raut has said that he would take care of the post-interval script. But going by the information coming out, it looks like we both will have to complete the picture like Salim-Javed.”

The remarks came as Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut had earlier while referring to the Maharashtra minister’s tweet said: “Malik has shown you the picture till interval. Rest of the part will be completed by me.”

The Shiv Sena leader further said Wankhede’s wife Kranti Redkar has no business in this controversy surrounding her husband.

“This is the case between NCB officials and the arrested persons. There will be no injustice to anyone,” Raut said.

Seeking justice in the wake of the “attack on her family and her personal life”, Redkar had earlier written a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.

“Being a Marathi person, I expect some justice from your side as my personal life is unnecessarily being dragged into a controversy. Had late Balasaheb Thackeray (father of Uddhav Thackeray) been alive today, he would not have tolerated such personal attack on a woman's dignity,” she said in the letter written on Thursday.

Wankhede, who led the raid on a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast earlier this month in which Aryan Khan was arrested, is at the centre of a political controversy following allegations of extortion in the high-profile cruise drugs case and facing the departmental vigilance probe.