Former Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede, who is currently facing drug-related cases pertaining to late actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s loss of life and Cordelia Cruise ship, will now face further inquiries in two circumstances, sources informed India Immediately TV.
The primary departmental inquiry initiated by the NCB is linked to a drug raid carried out in 2020 on the residence of actor Sapna Pabbi, sources stated.
Allegedly, managed medicine within the type of drugs tablets had been seized throughout this raid. Sources stated that the inquiry was prompted after Pabbi, via her lawyer, complained that the NCB staff led by Wankhede framed her in a false case underneath the Narcotic Drug and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
Pabbi has claimed that the then NCB staff didn’t think about particulars of her prescription offered by way of electronic mail or on report.
In October 2020, whereas investigating the Sushant Singh Rajput drug case, NCB officers searched Pabbi’s Mumbai residence and located twenty tablets of Clonazepam.
Pabbi, in her grievance, alleged that though a prescription from a health care provider was reportedly discovered alongside the tablets, it was allegedly not taken into consideration by NCB officers.
Regardless of Pabbi’s makes an attempt to clarify the possession of Clonazepam with a authorized prescription, she was labelled as needed within the case by the then NCB staff headed by Wankhede.
The second inquiry initiated by the NCB towards Wankhede pertains to an accusation that he used an arrested accused as a decoy to entice a Nigerian drug peddler concerned in cocaine trafficking.
Sources stated the accused was coerced and threatened by Wankhede to behave as a decoy. The accused was allegedly promised help in his personal case if he helped the NCB entice one other accused.
The accused, who’s now out on bail, informed the NCB that he was made to contact a Nigerian drug peddler over the telephone after which taken to a Juhu-based five-star lodge. Later, the Nigerian drug peddler was arrested.
Earlier within the day, the Bombay Excessive Courtroom stated no coercive steps shall be taken against IRS officer till April 10 on notices issued to him on the NCB’s preliminary inquiry over irregularities in a medicine case associated to Sushant Singh Rajput’s loss of life.
Wankhede, a 2008-batch IRS officer of the Customs and Oblique Taxes cadre, was additionally booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Might final 12 months on charges of extortion and bribery for allegedly seeking Rs 25 crore to not body actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan in a case of drug bust on a cruise ship.
