Fresh twist in Aryan Khan drug bust case has also sparked a political slugfest with Trinamool national spokesperson Saket Gokhale claiming that the CBI has been brought in by the BJP government and “the pawns will be arrested while the masters will go scot free”.
Updated May 15, 2023 | 11:51 PM IST
FIR Against Sameer Wankhede In Aryan Khan Drugs Case
He tweeted, “The case against Sameer Wankhede by CBI for extortion is just the tip of the iceberg. The real question is how high up the food chain were the 25 crores supposed to go? Now that CBI has been brought in by BJP govt, the pawns will be arrested while the masters will go scot free.”
However, Wankhede has denied all allegations. Speaking on the allegations, Sameer Wankhede alleged that he was being punished for being a patriot. Raids were also conducted at his residence and other premises.
“I am getting rewarded for being a patriot, yesterday 18 CBI officials raided my residence and searched it for more than 12 hours while my wife and children were present in the house. They found Rs 23,000 and four property papers. These assets were acquired before I joined the service,” Wankhede said on Saturday.
Sameer Wankhede further claimed that CBI officials took the phone of his wife Kranti Redkar in their possession. Apart from that, CBI recovered Rs 28,000 from his sister Yasmin Wankhede’s house and Rs 28,000 from his father Dnyaneshwar Wankhede’s house. Rs 1800 were also recovered from the residence of Wankhede’s father-in-law.
Sameer Wankhede has also been accused of making undisclosed foreign visits, transaction over expensive foreign watches.
What CBI FIR Says
- The FIR said that two independent witnesses in the Aryan Khan drugs case had planned to extort Rs 25 crore from Khan.
- The two independent witnesses named in the CBI FIR were Kiran Gosavi and Prabhakar Sail.
- The CBI questioned the presence of independent witness KP Gosavi around accused persons.
- It said it “was created intentionally in such a manner so as to give an impression that Gosavi was an NCB personnel”.
- The FIR also highlighted Wankhede’s foreign trips and the sale and purchase of expensive wristwatches.
- The CBI FIR claimed, ” Wankhede and other officers could not sufficiently justify their acquired assets as per their declared income.”
- “There was an attempt to extort a sum of Rs 25 crore from the family members of the alleged ‘accused’ Aryan Khan by threatening them of the accusation of offences of possession of Narcotics substances. This amount was finally settled for Rs 18 crore. A token amount of Rs 50 lakhs as bribe money was also taken by KP Gosavi and his aide Sanville D’Souza but later a part of this amount of Rs 50 lakhs bribe money was returned back by them,” the FIR says.
- Apart from Wankhede, four more accused have been named in the case.
- These include Vishwa Vijay Singh and Ashish Ranjan, then senior officers with the NCB, and KP Gosavi and his aide Sanvile D’Souza.
