Sameer Wankhede the NCB officer leading the investigation into the Aryan Khan drugs case, and against whom allegations of a Rs 8 crore payoff and extortion have been made has been removed from the investigating team.
An SIT, or special investigation team, to be led by senior police officer Sanjay Singh, will take over the Aryan Khan case as well as four others that were being handled by Mr Wankhede. Mr Wankhede has been at the centre of a major controversy after allegations from Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik and, more importantly, from Prabhakar Sail, an NCB witness in the Aryan Khan case, brought his record and his handling of cases into question.
Last week, amid a flurry of criticism and scrutiny, the anti-drugs agency publicly backed the senior officer, citing an “impeccable service record”. Simultaneously, though, the agency also initiated an internal probe headed by Deputy Director-General Gyaneshwar Singh.
Wankhede had on Monday visited the central anti-narcotics agency’s headquarters in Delhi and met senior officers. He was seen entering the NCB head office soon after he met National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) chairperson Vijay Sampla.
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NCB deputy director-general (northern region) Gyaneshwar Singh is conducting a departmental vigilance probe into allegations of extortion made in the drugs-on-cruise case in which Wankhede and his team had arrested Aryan Khan and seven others on October 3 from the international cruise terminal in Mumbai.
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