On Monday, the former Mumbai zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Sameer Wankhede told the Bombay high court that deputy director general Gyaneshwar Singh had made him a scapegoat in the 2021 Cordelia cruise drugs bust case.
In an additional affidavit submitted to the HC, the IRS officer claimed that though Singh was aware of the progress in the probe and had approved actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan’s arrest, he made a complete turnaround while heading the NCB’s special enquiry team (SET) and held him (Wankhede) responsible for all the proceedings.
Wankhede further alleged that Singh had even acknowledged that K P Gosavi was roped in as an independent witness in the case.
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In response to the affidavit submitted by the NCB on Wankhede’s petition that had urged the court to quash the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) FIR against him and four others, the affidavit was filed. While denying the allegations of having made ‘selective arrest/s’, Wankhede said his then superiors had insisted upon seeking police custody of Aryan Khan.
Wankhede claims that Singh is taking revenge for the complaint he had made against him to the National Commission of Scheduled Tribes in September 2022 for falsely framing him on charges of corruption in the cruise drugs bust case.
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On May 11, the CBI booked Wankhede, two former NCB officers, Gosavi and D’souza, for allegedly conspiring to extort INR 25 crore from bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan in exchange of not booking his son Aryan Khan in the Cordelia case.
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