I’m pained, I belong to secular family: Sameer Wankhede

TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ A three-member team of the Narcotics Control Bureau will go from Delhi to Mumbai tomorrow to probe the allegations levelled by Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik of the NCP against NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede.  The team will comprise DDG NCB Gyaneshwar Singh and two inspector level officers, NCB sources told. Malik has demanded a SIT probe against NCB zonal head Sameer Wankhede.

Malik claimed the officer was specifically brought to the agency by the Centre post the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput after which it started “playing games with the film industry”, and sought to know the motive behind his visits to the Maldives and Dubai.

Sameer Wankhede (in his personal capacity) has filed an affidavit in response to the NCP leader tweeting a document related to the NCB officer’s birth and alleging “forgery”.  It says: “… have been personally targeted, especially by a known political figure, (since) one Sameer Khan, a relative of this honcho, was arrested in a drug case… from that time there is a personal vendetta…”

 Wankhede also released a statement condemning the tweet. “The publishing of my personal documents is defamatory in nature and unnecessary invasion of my family privacy. It is intended to malign me, my family, my father, and my late mother,” he said, adding that the minister’s actions had put his family under “tremendous mental and emotional pressure”, and that he had been “pained by the slanderous attacks”.