Sameer Wankhede’s movements being tracked

Mumbai : Narcotics Control Bureau’s Officer Sameer Wankhede says that his movements were being tracked. He says he was spied on by some unidentified people and two policemen from Oshiwara in north Mumbai. From now on the officer investigating the drugs-on-cruise case involving Aryan Khan will be protected by a larger group of armed security men.

Following the complaint, the Mumbai Police has raised the number of bodyguards and armed personnel protecting Wankhede and deployed additional policemen outside the NCB’s office in south Mumbai’s Ballard Estate.

Wankhede will drive his own SUV as part of his new security detail. The officer had met with Maharashtra top cop Sanjay Pandey and complained that he was being stalked.

Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil said the state government has not ordered the police or any other agency to track Mr Wankhede’s movements.

Besides the drugs-on-cruise case, Mr Wankhede is investigating a number of high-profile drugs cases, including one linked to several people over the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput last year.

Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik last week attacked the NCB for what he claimed was running a “network” in Mumbai for the last one year “for only and only publicity”.

Malik had alleged the NCB under Mr Wankhede has been working to defame the state, where the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party along with the BJP’s former ally, Shiv Sena, is in power.

earlier Mallik had said, “From Rhea Chakraborty to Deepika Padukone, other celebrities or Aryan Khan, the NCB will only act wherever there is publicity involved. Many of the cases are fake; no recovery has been made.”

Aryan Khan was arrested hours after the NCB raided a cruise ship party in Mumbai on October 2. Seven others, including Aryan’s friend Arbaaz Merchant, were arrested on October 3.

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In Wednesday’s hearing the Narcotics Control Bureau told a Mumbai Sessions Court Aryan Khan had “indulged in illicit drug trafficking” and was involved in the “procuring and distribution of drugs.” When court hearing resumed on Thursday NCB told the court has produced evidence of Aryan Khan is a regular consumer of drugs.

Anil Singh said, “The record and the evidence before your honour shows that he is a regular consumer of contraband for last few years. The contraband in possession of Arbaz Merchant who accompanied Khan was for the consumption of both of them.”

The agency in its response to the bail plea, which was submitted in front of the special NDPS court on Wednesday, said the quantity of the recovery is immaterial as the initial probe has revealed that Aryan Khan is a regular consumer of drugs and used to procure through Arbaaz Merchant.

“When the IO (investigating officer) asked if he had drugs, Arbaaz said he had drugs in his shoes… Arbaaz admitted that both (he and Aryan Khan) were going to consume it on the cruise.”