NCB’s Sameer Wankhede tapped phones of Bollywood actors, alleges Nawab Malik

Mumbai/Bhubaneswar: NCB officer Sameer Wankhede, who is probing the drugs case involving Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan, was tapping the phones of Bollywood celebrities, alleged Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik, today.

Malik further said that Wankhede had sought call details of his daughter. However, Mumbai Police refused to provide it.

“Sameer Wankhede is tapping the phones of top personalities, including Bollywood actors, through two private individuals. My phones were also tapped,” said Malik at a press conference.

Malik further claimed that he received a letter from an unnamed NCB official of 36 fraudulently-filed cases by the agency. Some cases mentioned in the letter pertain to Bollywood celebrities, he said.

Malik also alleged that Wankhede snatched the job of a deserving Dalit by using forged documents to secure his job.

“The birth certificate tweeted by me is original. Sameer Wankhede’s father converted to Islam. Wankhede used a Dalit certificate to get his job and snatched away the job of a deserving Dalit,” he said.

Malik had yesterday raised doubts whether the Narcotics Control Bureau Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede had submitted a fake caste certificate to get a government job to which the latter hit back and vehemently denied the allegations.

The Nationalist Congress Party’s National Spokesperson Malik tweeted a purported birth certificate and marriage photo of the embattled Wankhede with telling captions: “Yahanse shuru hua farziwada’ (the fraud started here) and Pehchan Kaun (guess who).”

The birth certificate shows the NCB chief’s name as ‘Sameer Dawood Wankhede’, and the picture is of Wankhede’s first wedding with one Dr. Shabana Qureshi, whom he had later divorced and got married with Marathi films actress Kranti Redkar.

The NCP minister claimed that as per the birth certificate, Wankhede is a born Muslim but allegedly appeared for the civic services (UPSC) exams through a reserved category and became an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer.

“He has forged the documents to get reservations in the (civil services) examinations and job,” Malik contended.

In a statement, the NCB Zonal Director said his father is a retired Senior Police Inspector Dnyandev Kachruji Wankhede with State Excise Department, while his mother is the late Zaheeda, who was a Muslim.

Wankhede also confirmed that he had married (Dr. Shabana Qureshi) in a civil ceremony in 2006 under the Special Marriage Act, 1954.

“Both of us divorced mutually through Civil Court… in 2016. Later, in 2017, I married Kranti Dinanath Redkar,” said Wankhede to Malik’s charges.

He termed the publishing of his personal documents as ‘defamatory’ and ‘unnecessary invasion of my family privacy’ intended to malign him and his family members.

Wankhede said that the series of acts by Malik in the past few days have put him and his family under tremendous mental and emotional pressure, and he was pained by the “nature of personal, defamatory and slanderous attacks… without justification”.

Vowing to reveal more dope with evidence, Malik emphatically reiterated that the entire cruiser party raids conducted by Wankhede were fake and everything was being done to malign the Maharashtra government and terrorise Bollywood.

(With IANS inputs)