New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed FIR against IRS officer Sameer Wankhede for allegedly seeking bribe of Rs 25 crore from owners of Cordelia ship, said Officials. The anti-narcotics officer who arrested Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan in the alleged drugs-on-cruise case two years ago. The probe agency also conducted searches at premises of NCB's former Mumbai zonal chief Sameer Wankhede after filing an FIR against him and four others for allegedly seeking Rs 25 crore bribe for not framing Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan in the drugs-on-cruise case, officials said.
Aryan Khan was arrested in an alleged drug bust case on the Cordelia cruise ship on October 2, 2021, they said. The NCB, which had filed a charge-sheet in the drugs-on-cruise case, gave a clean chit to Aryan Khan, while an SIT set up by the anti-drugs agency claimed the probe led by Wankhede had lapses. They said the searches were spread across 29 locations across Mumbai, Delhi, Ranchi and Kanpur.
It is alleged that IRS officer Wankhede and others had allegedly demanded Rs 25 crore bribe for not framing Aryan Khan in the alleged drug bust, they said. The CBI received information that Rs 50 lakh was allegedly collected by the officer and his accomplice as advance, the officials said. Wankhede, who headed the Narcotics Control Bureau in Mumbai at the time of Aryan Khan's arrest, was transferred to the Directorate General of Taxpayer Services in Chennai in May last year.
In January this year, Mumbai Police registered a case after a watch worth Rs 4.5 lakh was stolen from the house of former Mumbai Narcotics Control Bureau Zonal director Sameer Wankhede and his wife Kranti Redkar, who is an actor. After the incident, the actor lodged a complaint at the Goregaon police station in Mumbai, the police registered a case and started the investigation. "Omega constellation watch worth Rs 4,50,000 was stolen from the house of Kranti Redkar. The maid is missing after the incident, so the doubt is on her," said police.
A few days ago, Kranti Redkar had hired a woman to work in the house through an agency.The maid seeing the opportunity stole the jewellery and money and fled from the spot. At present, the police are questioning the agency from where the maid was and is trying to trace her.
