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Sameer Wankhede, the zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai, has written to the Mumbai Police commissioner requesting that no “precipitate legal action is carried out to frame him falsely with ulterior motives” in relation to alleged vigilance issue in the cruise ship drugs case. The letter came hours after a witness in the Aryan Khan case has filed an affidavit levelling several allegations against Wankhede and NCB, including getting his signature on blank papers.

Aryan Khan drugs case has created a lots of hullabaloo specially on social media as his bail plea has been denied several times. Even the Maharashtra government has questioned NCB’s actions against Bollywood personalities while drugs of much more quantity are being recovered from other parts of the country. There have been debates and talk shows going on regarding Aryan’s arrest.

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Live Law’s tweet read: “NCB Mumbai Zonal Director #SameerWankhede writes to Mumbai Police Commissioner requesting that no precipitate legal action is carried out to frame him falsely with ulterior motives in relation to alleged vigilance issue in the cruise ship drugs case involving #AryanKhan”.

Take a look at the letter.

For the unversed, the affidavit of Prabhakar Rohoji Sail, the former driver and bodyguard of private investigator KP Gosavi, has levelled charges against Sameer Wankhede as Prabhakar allegedly said that “NCB official demanded ₹25 crore from Shah Rukh Khan to release his son Aryan Khan”. Sail claimed he heard Gosavi telling some D’Souza over the phone about a demand of ₹25 crore and to settle at ₹18 crore as they “have to give ₹eight crore to Sameer Wankhede”.

Aryan Khan is currently in Arthur Road Jail. His bail plea will be again heard on October 26.

Stay tuned for more such updates on the drugs case.

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