Nawab Malik, a Maharashtra minister, posted a tweet with a copy of NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede’s “nikah nama,” or marriage certificate, as well as an image of the officer with his first wife, Shabana Quraishi, at their wedding on Thursday. 

The Maharashtra minister insisted that his post on Sameer Wankhede was not about religion, but rather about exposing Wankhede’s alleged use of a false caste certificate to gain entry into the Indian Revenue Service (IRS). 

Nawab Malik’s latest post on social media regarding Wankhede come two days after he claimed the officer is a Muslim who forged a Hindu caste certificate to gain entry to the IRS as a scheduled caste.

He tweeted a copy of a birth certificate, which he claimed is of Sameer Wankhede. His father’s name appears to be Dawood K Wankhede on the document, but according to the NCB website, it is Dnyandev Wankhede.

“I want to make it clear that the issue I am exposing of Sameer Dawood Wankhede is not about his religion. I want to bring to light the fraudulent means by which he has obtained a caste certificate to get an IRS job and has deprived a deserving scheduled caste person of his future,” Malik said in one of his tweets on Thursday.

He said the “wedding took place on December 7, 2006, in Mumbai” and added that Aziz Khan, the husband of the officer’s sister, Yasmin, was the second witness to it. 

The focus of the drug case involving Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son, Aryan Khan, has turned to Wankhede, with Malik accusing the NCB zonal director in charge of the investigation.

Nawab Malik referenced a letter supposedly sent by an unidentified agency employee stating Wankhede framed innocent people in 26 false drug charges on Tuesday. 

He further stated that Wankhede hired two private individuals to wiretap people’s phones in order to frame them. According to the letter, the NCB allegedly planted drugs that were seized in some of the cases.

Following the arrest of Aryan Khan in the drugs case, the NCB began investigating charges that Sameer Wankhede was involved in a purported 25-crore extortion ring. After one of the NCB’s witnesses in the case, Prabhakar Sail, made the claim, an investigation was ordered.

On Tuesday, during a press conference, the officer’s second wife, Kranti Redkar, and sister, Jasmeen Wankhede, refuted all of the charges, stating that if Malik had proof, he should go to court rather than having a media trial and targeting their family.