Vikrant Shekhawat : Nov 06, 2021, 07:57 AM
Mumbai: Speaking exclusively to India Today after news emerged that he had been taken off the Aryan Khan drugs case, NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede said, "I am the zonal director of the NCB's Mumbai unit and will remain so. I have not been removed from that post."Further, he stated that he had requested that the Aryan Khan case be probed by a central agency. "I too had requested that the Aryan Khan case and Nawab Malik's allegations be investigated by a central agency. Hence, it is good that a special investigation team from Delhi will now conduct the probe," he told India Today over a phone call.Sameer Wankhede was quoted by ANI as saying, "I've not been removed from the investigation. It was my writ petition in court that the matter be probed by a central agency. So Aryan case and Sameer Khan case are being probed by Delhi NCB. It's a coordination between NCB teams of Delhi and Mumbai."On Friday evening, six cases, including the Aryan Khan one, were transferred from the NCB's Mumbai zone to the central zone. Sanjay Singh, the deputy director general of the central unit of the NCB, will now be the supervising officer for all five cases. Sameer Wankhede, zonal director of the NCB's Mumbai unit, is no longer in charge of these cases.Sameer Wankhede added that he will continue to work on his "operations against drugs".NATION MUST KNOW TRUTH: NAWAB MALIKMaharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik, who has levelled several allegations against Sameer Wankhede since the Mumbai cruise drugs case began, raised a question on Friday night regarding the NCB officer's claim that he had requested a probe by a central agency into the case.He said, "Either ANI is misquoting Sameer Wankhede or he is misleading the nation. He filed a writ petition in court asking that the investigation on him for extortion and corruption be conducted by CBI or NIA, not by Mumbai Police.Court rejected his petition. Nation must know the truth."