Former Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede, who’s presently going through drug-related circumstances pertaining to late actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s dying and Cordelia Cruise ship, will now face extra inquiries in two circumstances, sources instructed India Right this moment 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, by her lawyer, complained that the NCB workforce led by Wankhede framed her in a false case beneath the Narcotic Drug and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
Pabbi has claimed that the then NCB workforce didn’t contemplate particulars of her prescription supplied by way of e mail or on file.
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 physician was reportedly discovered alongside the tablets, it was allegedly not taken under 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 workforce 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 lure 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 lure one other accused.
The accused, who’s now out on bail, instructed 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 towards IRS officer until 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 dying.
Wankhede, a 2008-batch IRS officer of the Customs and Oblique Taxes cadre, was additionally booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Could final 12 months on fees of extortion and bribery for allegedly searching for Rs 25 crore to not body actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan in a case of drug bust on a cruise ship.