Sameer Wankhede meets NCSC president in Delhi, submits caste documents
Sources said that the Narcotics Control Bureau’s Mumbai circle chief Sameer Wankhede met National Commission for Scheduled Castes Chairman Vijay Sampla on Monday and asked him to produce his original caste documents that he was a Dalit.
Aryan Khan, son of actor Shah Rukh Khan, is heading the probe into the Wankhede cruise drugs case.
The NCB has ordered a vigilance inquiry into the allegations leveled by a witness in a case of extortion of Rs 25 crore by some officials of the agency, including Wankhede and others, for releasing Khan.
Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik has leveled several allegations against Wankhede.
Among other things, he has accused the officer of forging his caste certificate and other documents to secure a job as an IRS officer under the SC quota after clearing the UPSC exam.
Malik claimed that Wankhede was a Muslim by birth, though the latter denied it.
On Sunday, NCSC vice-chairman Arun Halder had come out in support of Wankhede, saying that the officer is doing a good job and making his department proud, but a minister has launched a personal attack against him and his family members.
Halder also visited Wankhede’s residence in Mumbai.
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