‘Not removed’, says Sameer Wankhede on being shifted from Aryan Khan drugs case

Sameer Wankhede. Pic/Suresh Karkera

Narcotics Control Bureau's top sleuth Sameer Wankhede, who was also the investigating officer of the drugs-on-cruise case in which superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan was arrested has been removed from the case by the agency.

As per latest reports, Wankhede will be transferred to the Delhi unit of NCB and his post of zonal head of Mumbai unit will be occupied by Sanjay Singh.

However, Wankhede told news agency ANI that he has not been removed. "I've not been removed from investigation. It was my writ petition in court that the matter be probed by a central agency. So Aryan case and Sameer Khan case are being probed by Delhi NCB's SIT. It's a coordination between NCB teams of Delhi and Mumbai," he said.

A total of 6 cases of Mumbai zone, including the drugs-on-cruise case will now be investigated by a special Delhi-based team of NCB. "It was an administrative decision," says Mutha Ashok Jain, Deputy DG, South-Western Region, NCB.

Sameer Wankhede has been in the centre of controversy after Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik levied serious allegations against him in including extortion in cases and forgery in his caste certificate.

After the news of Wankhede's removal broke, Malik took to Twitter to say, "a lot more has to be done to clean this system and we will do it."