Sameer Wankhede Arrives At CBI Office For Day 2 Questioning In Aryan Khan Drugs On Cruise Case

Former NCB officer Sameer Wankhede on Sunday arrived at the CBI office in Mumbai for questioning in connection with Aryan Khan's drugs on the cruise case.

Former Zonal Director of NCB Mumbai, Sameer Wankhede arrives at the CBI office.

Source : PTI

Former Zonal Director of NCB Mumbai, Sameer Wankhede on Sunday arrived at the CBI office in Mumbai for questioning in connection with a case related to Aryan Khan's drugs on the cruise case. The former NCB officer is accused of seeking a bribe from superstar Shah Rukh Khan when his son Aryan Khan was in custody in the drugs on cruise case last year. Wankhede had also appeared before the central probe agency on Saturday and when reporters tried to speak with him, he said 'Satyameva Jayate' suggesting that he is true to what he has been saying and the truth will win in the end.

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This comes after the Bombay High Court on Friday ordered no coercive action against Sameer Wankhede till May 22 in a corruption case related to the Cordelia cruise drug bust. Wankhede had filed a petition seeking the quashing of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) FIR against him for allegedly demanding a Rs 25 crore bribe from superstar Shah Rukh Khan for not implicating his son Aryan Khan in the drug bust case.

Crucial details keep emerging in the case months after Wankhede came into the limelight after Shah Rukh Khan's son was put behind bars in the drugs on cruise case. Recently, the purported conversations between Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan and Sameer Wankhede were presented in court to support the latter's case. According to the chat logs, Shah Rukh Khan was observed appealing to Wankhede to treat his son Aryan Khan leniently when he was apprehended in connection with the cruise drug case.

The Mumbai High Court has received a document submitted by Wankhede, which reportedly contains a conversation between him and Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan. 

Notably, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) did not name Aryan Khan in its charge sheet in the case because of a lack of evidence against him last year. Wankhede had offered to appear before the agency on Thursday after an FIR was registered against him and four others for allegedly trying to extort the bribe from Shah Rukh Khan on the basis of an NCB inquiry referred to it by the home ministry, PTI reported sources as saying.