Former NCB Chief Sameer Wankhede, accused in the Aryan Khan bribery case claims he doesn’t know Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone; asks ‘Who are they?’ | Hindi Movie News
Sameer Wankhede, the previous zonal director of the Narcotics Management Bureau, and one of many predominant accused within the extortion and bribery case involving Shah Rukh Khan’s son, Aryan Khan, has alleged that he does not know the actor.
Based on experiences, Wankhede appeared on an episode of ‘Khupte Tithe Gupte‘, the place he opened up about his duties as an NCB officer. Opening up about his time working at airport safety, he stated that he would file 3,500 circumstances, of which 100-150 concerned celebrities, whereas others have been in opposition to peddlers and hardcore criminals. Claiming that the allegations about him ‘going after celebrities’ was unsuitable, he stated, “I’m a person of the legislation.”
Stating that his goal is to serve the nation, he added that folks solely give attention to his circumstances in opposition to celebrities however neglected his circumstances in opposition to others.
He additional went on so as to add that to him, “celebs are Baba Amte, Sindhutai Sapkal, and different personalities.”
On the present when the host confirmed footage of Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, and Mika Singh and requested for his opinion, Sameer reported stated, “Who’re they? I do not know. I didn’t even know who Mika was.”
Over the previous yr, Wankhede made headlines when he requested for defense in opposition to the demise threats he obtained. Opening up about these alleged threats from the underworld, Sameer stated that to him, these folks have been solely “small criminals.” He added that he ‘all the time get threats’, and it’s a ‘quite common factor’ in his occupation.
Whereas stating that he was ‘not scared’ of them, he added that his purpose is ‘to problem them’. “I had taken motion in opposition to Dawood Ibrahim’s brother and destroyed a number of of his properties at his base in Dongri, Mumbai. He might need had a monetary loss, however I do not care about it,” he stated.
Whereas he was at it, he additionally addressed the social media trolling he faces for marrying actress Kranti Redkar. Sameer stated that he fell in love together with his spouse again of their faculty days when she was not an actress. He added that they have been collectively in faculty and that it was Kranti who requested him to marry her and “I stated sure to her, and we obtained married.”
Wankhede and the opposite accused within the case have been booked for alleged felony conspiracy and menace of extortion, in addition to provisions pertaining to bribery in a case by which he’s accused of demanding Rs 25 crore bribe from famous person Shah Rukh Khan for not implicating his son Aryan within the Cordelia cruise ‘drug bust’ case.
Aryan Khan and several other others have been arrested in October 2021 for alleged possession, consumption and trafficking of medication. Later, Aryan was granted bail by HC after spending three weeks in jail. The NCB, which subsequently filed its chargesheet, didn’t identify the star child as an accused within the case citing a scarcity of proof.
The NCB then arrange a particular crew to hold out an inquiry into the case in opposition to its personal officers.
In the meantime, Wankhede lately submitted a criticism with Mumbai Police demanding motion in opposition to an RTI activist stating {that a} video uploaded by him on the Cordelia cruise case is prima facie defamatory.
Wankhede, at the moment posted as Extra Commissioner of Customs, claimed the activist, Ketan Tirodkar, printed a false, defamatory interview on a Marathi information channel and different mediums. He demanded a case be registered in opposition to the RTI activist below sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code for defamation.
