New Delhi: Zonal Director of the Narcotics Control Bureau, Sameer Wankhede, will not oversee drug bust cases involving Aryan Khan again because the Bureau has formed a special investigation team (sitting) in the operating unit based in Delhi to investigate six cases – the agency said it had consequences National and international – including those involving Bollywood Son Superstar Shah Rukh Khan.
“There are no officers or officers who have been removed from their current role and they will continue to help investigate the operation branch as requested until certain orders are released the opposite,” the official statement said.
“This is repeated that NCB functions throughout India as a single integrated agent,” Added Official Statement, tried to fight reports that Wankhede had been divested from high profile investigations.
However, the decision to arrange sitting did take the spotlight from Wankhede, who found himself in the midst of controversy and political shootout between the Nationalist and BJP Congress Party.
Nawab Malik NCP has attacked Wankhede, accusing bribery and claiming officers hiding the identity of “Muslims”.
Officers have greatly denied the allegations while BJP attacked NCP and Maharashtra who regulated the coalition over drug bust.
After the NCB order became public, Malik claimed that he had been “justified” while Wankhede’s wife posted an official release on social media to say “rumors” should not be trusted and that there is no truth in the claim that the officer has removed the investigation.
“I have not been removed from the investigation.
It was a written petition in court that this problem was examined by the central agent.
So the case of Aryer and the case of Sameer Khan was being examined by sitting Delhi NCB.
This is the coordination of the NCB B / W team from Delhi & Mumbai,” said An Ani report quoted by Wankhede.
Wankhede said a senior IPS officer would now investigate these cases.
The 1996-batch Cadre Odisha IPS officer, Sanjay Singh, will lead sitting.
Singh is currently posted as Deputy Director General (OPS).
“Sitting consisting of officers from the NCB headquarters operating branch has been formed by the Director General to take over the total number of six cases from the Zonal NCB Mumbai unit which has national and international consequences, to carry out deeper investigations to find forward and backwards,” said DDG Sanjay Singh.
Commenting on the report that Wankhede has been removed from this case, NCB denied that his officers had been removed from their current role, something that was said to be the “technically” source because the cases had been moved to other units instead of being shaken.
Apart from Arya Khan, cases involving Malik Sameer Khan’s men, Kohli’s armor and three other cases have been transferred to the operating unit.
Wankhede oversees all of these cases even though investigative officers are different, the source at NCB said.
The decision to set up the cases came after a detailed report submitted to the NCB S N Pradhan.
Previously, DDG Gyaneshwar Singh was assigned to investigate alertness to the allegations flattened in the case of Aryan Khan.
IOS of six cases has been asked to submit a case file.
A team of the operating unit tends to go to Mumbai on Saturday to take an investigation, said the source.