New Delhi: NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede on Monday appeared before special NDPS (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act) court in connection with the probe of drugs-on-the-cruise case.
Two affidavits have been filed in the case -- one by NCB and another by Wankhede.
"My family, including my sister and deceased mother, are being targetted", he said, as quoted by ANI.
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Reacting to the fresh allegations, Sameer Wankhede said: "I have come to know about a fresh tweet by Nawab Malik about my birth certificate. This is an ugly attempt to bring in all the things which are not connected to all this. My mother was a Muslim so does he want to bring my dead mother in all this?"
"To verify my caste and background, anyone can go to my native place and verify my lineage from my great grandfather. But he should not spread this filth like this. I will fight all this legally and don't want to comment much on it outside court," Wankhede told ANI.
The statement came after National Congress Party leader and Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik put up a fresh allegation against Sameer Wankhede. Malik shared the birth certificate of the NCB Mumbai Zonal Director on Twitter writing: "Sameer Dawood Wankhede's fraud started from here."
Last week, Malik had claimed that Wankhede previously visited the Maldives and Dubai, and that he was targeting film personalities for an extortion racket.
"During COVID, the entire (film) industry was in Maldives... The officer and his family were also there. Sameer Wankhede has to explain about his visit to Dubai and Maldives. We are sure that this 'ugahi' (extortion) happened in Maldives and Dubai. I will give you photos soon," Nawab Malik had told reporters.
"They (BJP) have a puppet - Wankhede. He raises bogus cases... I challenge Wankhede he'll lose his job in a year... We have evidence of bogus cases," the NCP leader claimed earlier, as quoted by ANI.
Wankhede rubbished Malik's claim of him going to Dubai and said that he had gone to the Maldives with proper permission: "The word 'extortion' is a disgusting term. I did go to Maldives after taking competent authority's permission. I went with my children and family after taking the government's permission. If he (Nawab Malik) calls that extortion, then this is not acceptable. I have never been to Dubai, whatever time he is stating that."
Malik has repeatedly accused the NCB case of being “fake” and had also alleged that "attempts were made to implicate certain people..."
NCB Team To Probe Corruption Allegations Against Sameer Wankhede
Meanwhile, a three-member Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) team will reportedly go from Delhi to Mumbai to probe the allegations of corruption against NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede.
The team will comprise DDG NCB Gyaneshwar Singh and two inspector level officers and it will look into all allegations made by Prabhakar Sail, who is a witness in the Drugs-on-cruise matter and has alleged payoff in the case, news agency ANI cited NCB sources as saying.