Sameer Wankhede part of BJP leader’s plot to kidnap Aryan Khan: Nawab Malik

Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Sunday levelled fresh allegations against NCB’s Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede in the Mumbai drugs-on-cruise case. Malik alleged Wankhede was part of a plot masterminded by BJP leader Mohit Bharatiya to “kidnap” Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan, who is currently out on bail after he was arrested by the NCB on October 3 following a raid on the Goa-bound ship off the Mumbai coast. Malik appealed Shah Rukh to come forward and support his “fight against injustice.”

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Malik, whose son-in-law Sameer Khan was arrested in January by the NCB in an alleged drugs case, has repeatedly termed the cruise drugs raid as “fake” and previously accused Wankhede of extortion and corruption. Sameer was granted bail by a court in September.

The minister on Sunday claimed Wankhede had met Bharatiya at a graveyard in suburban Oshiwara.

“But, because of his (Wankhede’s) good luck, we couldn’t get the footage since police’s CCTV was not functioning. Hence, out of fear, Wankhede had lodged a false complaint that he was being stalked,” Malik told reporters in Mumbai.

The NCB on Friday removed Wankhede removed from the drugs-on-cruise case as part of what it termed an “administrative decision.” The NCB also transferred the case pertaining to Nawab Malik’s son-in-law among five other cases from the NCB’s Mumbai zone to the operations unit in Delhi. The NCB initiated a departmental vigilance probe against Wankhede after Prabhakar Sail, an “independent witness” in the case, levelled extortion and corruption allegations against him.

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Malik claimed Bharatiya was a member of Wankhede’s “private army.”

“Rs 25 crore were sought, and the deal was finalised at Rs 18 crore…Rs 50 lakh were given. The deal got spoilt because the selfie of K P Gosavi (NCB’s witness in the cruise drugs case) with Aryan, after his arrest, became viral,” he claimed.