In addition to Ashok Kamble, Dalit activist Manoj Sansare has also joined in as another complainant in the case against Sameer Wankhede.
Mumbai: Narcotics Control Bureau’s officer Sameer Wankhede will be appearing before the caste certificate scrutiny committee which is investigating the allegations regarding the officer’s caste certificate. on December 14.
On the basis of a complaint lodged by the president of the Maharashtra unit of the Bhim Army, Ashok Kamble, summons was issued by the commission late last month. He alleged that Wankhede provided false information about himself to obtain a ‘Mahar’ caste certificate for a government job.
In addition to Kamble, Dalit activist Manoj Sansare has also joined in as another complainant in the case.
As per the allegations leveled by them on Sameer Wankhede, he is Muslim by birth and got married in accordance with Sharia and the officer allegedly obtained a bogus certificate to further his professional gains.
The Mumbai district caste certificate scrutiny committee took cognizance of the complaints and held its first hearing on November 30.
Advocate Nitin Satpute, representing both the complainants, presented two documents before the committee—a photocopy of Sameer Wankhede’s birth certificate and another photocopy of his caste certificate issued by the Greater Mumbai executive magistrate.
Earlier NCP Spokesperson Nawab Malik reiterated his claim that Sameer Wankhede, the Zonal Director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), is a Muslim. In this instance, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader shared two school leaving certificates of the NCB official.
Further, the minister claimed that Wankhede had threatened his first wife, Dr Shabana Quraishi, trapped her cousin brother in a fake drugs case and threatened to do the same to the rest of her family if she spoke out against him.
The Wankhede family responded to Malik by supplying a 2021 computer-generated birth certificate of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), showing the name of the NCB official as Sameer and that of his parents as Zahedbano and Dnyandeo Kachruji Wankhede.
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