Cruise drug case: NCB officer Sameer Wankhede gets security hiked

Security of Sameer Wankhede, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officer probing the Mumbai drugs-on-cruise case involving Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan among others, has been tightened after he said he was being spied on.

Wankhede, who has been in the eye of a storm since the arrest of Khan and the others in the drugs case, alleged that he was being followed by two Mumbai Police personnel and met Maharashtra director general of police (DGP) Sanjay Pandey, seeking more security.

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Hindustan Times reported that more armed bodyguards have been added to the existing security detail of NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede and his official vehicle has also been changed.

Earlier, the officer claimed that he was followed by some policemen when he was visiting a Mumbai cemetery, where his mother is buried. The police personnel also allegedly gathered closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage from the cemetery monitoring his movement.

Later, Mumbai Police commissioner Hemant Nagrale took note of the complaint and ordered an inquiry into the allegations made by Sameer Wankhede.

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The commissioner confirmed that he received a written complaint and that an additional commissioner of police has been ordered to look into the allegations and submit a report.

After his snooping allegations, Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil had said the state government had not ordered police or any other agency to monitor the movements of Wankhede.

Besides the cruise drug bust, Wankhede had been involved in investigations of a string of high-profile narcotics cases, including the one related to the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput last year.