New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday quizzed former Mumbai NCB chief Sameer Wankhede for greater than 5 hours in a case through which he’s accused of demanding a Rs 25 crore bribe from celebrity Shah Rukh Khan for not implicating his son Aryan within the Cordelia cruise ‘drug bust’ case, an official mentioned. Wankhede reached the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) workplace in Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) round 10.15 am. Talking to media individuals whereas coming into the company workplace, Wankhede simply mentioned “Satyamev Jayate” (fact alone triumphs). He did not converse to media individuals whereas leaving the workplace. The Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer was given a lunch break for round half-hour at round 2 pm. He returned to the CBI workplace and joined the investigation. He left for the day at round 4:30 pm, the official mentioned. It was his first look earlier than the company after the case was registered in opposition to him, the official mentioned.
The CBI had summoned the previous Mumbai Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director for questioning on Thursday in reference to the case, however he didn’t seem that day. The central company booked Wankhede and 4 others on May 11 for alleged prison conspiracy and risk of extortion, moreover beneath provisions pertaining to bribery beneath the Prevention of Corruption Act on a grievance by the NCB.
On Friday, Wankhede bought a aid from the Bombay High Court which directed the CBI to not take any “coercive action”, equivalent to arrest, in opposition to him until May 22. Seeking quashing of FIR, Wankhede alleged earlier than the HC that the “draft complaint” within the 2021 drugs-on-cruise case named Aryan Khan as an accused, nevertheless it was later changed and Aryan’s title was dropped.
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Among different issues, his petition additionally supplied transcriptions of telephone chats with Shah Rukh Khan in the course of the interval Aryan was in NCB custody. It cited Khan as pleading with Wankhede to be variety to his son and praising the officer for his “uprightness” Aryan was arrested by the NCB on October 3, 2021, following the alleged drug seizure on board the Cordelia cruise ship right here. He was granted bail by the excessive court docket three weeks later because the anti-drugs company didn’t substantiate its prices in opposition to him.
The CBI alleged that the NCB’s Mumbai zone had acquired data in October 2021 relating to the consumption and possession of narcotic substances by numerous people on the cruise ship, and a few NCB officers conspired to get bribes from the accused in return for letting them off.
