Sameer Wankhede corruption case: The Bombay High Court in the present day (May 19) directed the CBI not to take any coercive action, corresponding to arrest, against former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede who’s accused of demanding Rs 25 crore bribe from actor Shah Rukh Khan for not implicating his son Aryan Khan within the Cordelia cruise drug bust case.
Wankhede, an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) official, has moved the courtroom with a petition searching for to quash the First Information Report (FIR) registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against him.
A trip bench of the courtroom handed the order after recording Wankhede’s enterprise that he’ll stay current on the CBI’s workplace in BKC space in Mumbai at 11:00 am on May 20 (Saturday).
The CBI shall not take any coercive action against Wankhede till May 22 (Monday), Bombay High Court stated.
WHAT HAPPENED SO FAR IN BRIBERY CASE: DETAILS
Wankhede moved to Bombay HC with petition:
Earlier, former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede on Friday moved a petition earlier than the Bombay High Court searching for quashing of an FIR filed against him by the CBI for allegedly demanding Rs 25 crore bribe from famous person Shah Rukh Khan for not implicating his son Aryan Khan within the Cordelia cruise drug bust case.
In the petition moved earlier than a trip bench of the excessive courtroom, Wankhede additionally sought that no coercive action associated to the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) first info report (FIR) be taken against him. The CBI filed the FIR against Wankhede and 4 others not too long ago.
When Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was nabbed by NCB?
Aryan Khan was arrested by the NCB on October 3, 2021 after a raid on the Cordelia cruise ship. He was granted bail by the Bombay High Court after three weeks because the anti-drug company failed to substantiate its fees against him. The CBI booked Wankhede and others for alleged prison conspiracy and menace of extortion, moreover underneath provisions pertaining to bribery underneath the Prevention of Corruption Act on a grievance by the NCB.
The probe company has alleged that the NCB, Mumbai Zone, had acquired info in October 2021 associated to the consumption and possession of narcotics substances by numerous people on the personal cruise ship and that a few of its officers conspired and obtained undue benefit within the type of bribes from the alleged accused.
Delhi High Court coercive action to Wankhede:
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (May 17) granted safety from coercive action to Wankhede for 5 days with the freedom to strategy the suitable discussion board, which might be the Bombay High Court. The CBI summoned Wankhede for questioning in Mumbai on Thursday in reference to the case, however he did not seem earlier than the company’s crew.
Wankhede accuses senior NCB official of humiliating him over caste:
Former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede has alleged that then Deputy Director of the NCB Gyaneshwar Singh humiliated and harassed him throughout an inquiry as Wankhede belongs to a backward group.
The CBI had summoned Wankhede for questioning in Mumbai on Thursday in reference to alleged demand of Rs 25 crore from famous person Shah Rukh Khan for not implicating his son Aryan Khan within the Cordelia cruise drug bust case, however Wankhede did not seem earlier than the company’s crew.
Talking to media over telephone on Thursday (May 18), the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer stated he had complained against the remedy meted out to him to the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), the National Commission for Scheduled Castes in addition to the Mumbai Police.
Wankhede has been named in a primary info report (FIR) filed by the CBI together with 4 others in reference to the cruise drug bust case. The FIR is predicated on the report of the then Deputy Director of NCB Gyaneshwar Singh, who headed a Special Enquiry Team (SET).
“The FIR was registered against me only because I had lodged a complaint against Singh with the National Commission for Scheduled Castes,” stated Wankhede. “I had filed a complaint with the SC Commission in Delhi, seeking an FIR against Singh for using abusive language against me as I was from a backward community,” he stated.
According to him, he had approached the CAT against the report ready by Singh. He had additionally approached the Goregaon Police Station in Mumbai in August 2022 searching for an FIR against Singh underneath the SC-ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, he stated.
No FIR has been registered on this case, although. Singh used the CBI against him to assist Aryan Khan get off the hook within the drug case, Wankhede alleged.
He additionally claimed that he had all the time saved his superiors within the loop about investigation into the alleged drug seizure from Cordelia, and put Aryan Khan underneath custody solely on their directions. Gyaneshwar Singh did not reply to the calls and messages for acquiring his response.
(With companies inputs)
