Will NCB now act in opposition to Sameer Wankhede, asks jailed Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik

By PTI

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik on Friday requested if the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) will take motion in opposition to IRS official Sameer Wankhede and “his private army” now that it has given a clear chit to Aryan Khan in an alleged drug seizure case.

While Malik is in jail in an alleged cash laundering case, his remark was revealed by the Twitter account ‘Office of Nawab Malik’.

“Now that Aryan Khan and 5 others get a clean chit. Will NCB take action against Sameer Wankhede his team and the private army? Or will it shield the culprits? ” mentioned the tweet, accompanied by hashtags `Farziwada uncovered’ and ‘Truth prevails’.

Malik, a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief, was the primary to query the raid performed by Wankhede, then zonal director of the NCB in Mumbai, on a cruise ship final October throughout which Aryan and others have been arrested.

The minister had launched a veritable marketing campaign in opposition to Wankhede, accusing him of implicating Aryan in a false case to extort cash from his father, Bollywood famous person Shah Rukh Khan.

Malik additionally questioned the genuineness of the scheduled caste certificates of Wankhede, an Indian Revenue Service official.