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Nawab Malik says he received threat call for targeting NCB’s Sameer Wankhede

NCP leader Nawab Malik said he received a threat call, warning him against "targeting" Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede.

NCP leader Nawab Malik claimed on Friday that he received a threat call from a person who warned him against targeting Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede.

Nawab Malik said a complaint has been filed over the threat call. The call was made from Rajasthan, he claimed.

The NCP leader, who had been launching attacks on Sameer Wankhede over the Mumbai drug bust case, had even targeted the latter’s family. He earlier questioned, “During the Covid-19 pandemic, the entire film industry was in the Maldives. What were the officer [Sameer Wankhede] and his family doing in the Maldives and Dubai?”

Nawab Malik alleged that “attempts were made to implicate certain people in false cases and that ‘vasuli’ (extortion) took place in Dubai and the Maldives. He said he even has photographs to establish the same.

Responding to these allegations, Sameer Wankhede, zonal director of NCB’s Mumbai unit, told India Today TV that his family was being attacked by Nawab Malik and he would take legal recourse in the matter.

“The minister is saying wrong things. It is an absolute lie. I went to the Maldives with my children for a vacation. I took proper permission from the competent authority for the same. I didn’t meet anyone, and I don’t want to clarify these kinds of accusations further. In December, I was in Mumbai, at the time when he said I was in Dubai. This can be investigated,” said Sameer Wankhede.

This was not the first time Nawab Malik targeted the NCB or Sameer Wankhede. He had levelled allegations against Wankhede soon after the Mumbai drug bust case came to light.

Nawab Malik had claimed that the alleged recovery of banned drugs from the cruise ship off the coast was “fake” and arrests were made just based on WhatsApp chats.

However, Sameer Wankhede refuted all allegations and said that everything was done legally. The NCB had then released a statement saying certain incorrect information had been shared on social media regarding Sameer Wankhede.

Several people, including Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan, are in judicial custody in connection with the drug bust case.

Source
India Today

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