New Delhi: Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai zone chief Sameer Wankhede’s wife Kranti Redkar on Sunday said the safety of her family members is in jeopardy and demanded security.
“The safety of Sameer Wankhede and family members is in jeopardy. Some days back, three people conducted a recce of the house,” Redkar said, ANI reported.
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“We will provide the CCTV footage to the police. Security should be provided to the family,” she added.
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.
Meanwhile, Union Minister and RPI (A) president Ramdas Athawale extended his support to the NCB officer stating Wankhede is a Hindu dalit and a follower of B.R. Ambedkar.
“I have gone through the documents. Sameer Wankhede is a Hindu dalit. He is a follower of Babasaheb Ambedkar. He is not Muslim,” he told reporters in Mumbai, PTI reported.
Athawale also asked Maharashtra Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik to refrain from “conspiring” to defame the NCB officer and his family members.
The RPI (A) president’s remarks came after the NCB officer’s wife and his father called on him.
Malik had earlier claimed that the NCB officer 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.
Wankhede, who led the raid on a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast earlier this month in which Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son 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.