MUMBAI: Sameer Wankhede, the ex-Zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau in Mumbai whose controversial handling of the Aryan Khan drug case drew flak from many quarters, has been shunted to Chennai as the Additional Commissioner at the Directorate General of Tax Payer Service there.
He had been shifted to the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence in Mumbai earlier this year.
The development comes after a Special Investigation Team gave a clean chit to Aryan Khan, Hindi superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son, saying there was no proof against him in the drugs-on-cruise case, which had been investigated by Wankhede.
The SIT went on to raise several questions about the shoddy probe by Sameer Wankhede's team in the headline-grabbing case that saw Aryan Khan spend 26 days in jail.
According to sources, there were many irregularities in the investigation.
There was no proper videography of the raid locations. Aryan Khan's medical test to establish whether he had consumed drugs or not hadn't been carried out. It did also did not help that the same charges were slapped on all of the accused even though Aryan Khan had been found without drugs.
All these facts went on to help Aryan Khan avail bail later.
Sameer Wankhede had also been facing several allegations including producing a fake scheduled caste certificate to secure his job. It was stated that Sameer Wankhede is a Muslim by birth but he later changed his religion to obtain the SC certificate and gain benefits both during his education and in his career.
The Maharashtra government is currently probing this as well.