The father of Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede has allegedly filed a defamation case against Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik in the Bombay high court and sought Rs 1.25 crore in damages.

India Today reported that Wankhede’s father Dhyandev Kachruji Wankhede wants a permanent injunction restraining Malik and others “acting under his instructions” from publishing, writing or speaking in the media about the family.

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It also said that Malik has levelled several allegations against Wankhede, who was recently removed by the NCB from heading the sensational drugs-on-cruise case in which Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan is an accused. He was also in-charge of a case in which Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan is involved.

Among the several charges that the cabinet minister has brought against the NCB officer are extortion and fraudulent use of caste card to obtain his job.

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Meanwhile, the Maharashtra minister will address a press conference today, four days after teasing yet another expose in the ongoing drugs controversy in the state.

“I will address a live press conference tomorrow, Sunday 7th November 2021, at 10am. Venue-Noor Manzil, LBS Marg, Kurla, Mumbai,” the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader said in a tweet on Saturday.

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In an earlier tweet, attacking Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede, who was leading the probe into the drugs-on-cruise case, for which, several people, including actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan, were arrested and later given bail, the minister posted, “A member of Sameer Dawood Wankhede’s private army just held a press conference to misguide and divert from the truth, albeit unsuccessfully. I will reveal the truth tomorrow.”