NCB officer Sameer Wankhede is leading the Aryan Khan drugs case. NDTV reported NCB and said that the agency has an “impeccable service record”, in response to a Rs 8 crore payoff claim and a tweet by NCP leader Nawab Malik alleging forgery linked to a birth document.

On Monday morning, Wankhede filed an affidavit with the special court hearing the drugs-on-cruise case. The affidavit was in response to Malik posting a tweet with document related to the NCB officer’s birth and writing: “Forgery began here.”

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“The publishing of my personal documents is defamatory in nature and an unnecessary invasion of my family privacy. It is intended to malign me, my family, my father, and my late mother,” Wankhede said, adding that the minister’s actions had put his family under “tremendous mental and emotional pressure” and that he himself had been left “pained by the slanderous attacks”.

In his affidavit, Wankhede wrote: “… I have been personally targeted, especially by a known political figure, (since) one Sameer Khan, a relative of this honcho, was arrested in a drug case… from that time there is a personal vendetta targeted at me and my family members… was threatened to be arrested and dispelled from my job/service.”

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Wankhede also wrote to the Mumbai Police, seeking protection from legal action over fears that he would be “framed with ulterior motives”.

The second affidavit – filed by the NCB – was in response to claims about a Rs 8 crore payoff to Wankhede. In that affidavit the anti-drugs has come out strongly in support of Mr Wankhede, who is, it said, an officer with an “impeccable service record” and is “replete with honesty and integrity”.

Aryan has been in jail since October 8. Twice denied bail by lower courts, his third appeal will be heard by the Bombay High Court tomorrow. His lawyers have argued no drugs were found on him, and that the NCB’s case is based on WhatsApp chats.