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Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik has accused Narcotics Control Bureau official Sameer Wankhede of illegal phone tapping and announced that he will hand over a letter on the official’s ‘misdeeds’ to the agency head.
“Sameer Wankhede through two persons in Mumbai and Thane is illegally intercepting the mobile phones of some people,” said Malik, who has been targeting Wankhede after his son-in-law’s arrest.
The letter sent to me by an unnamed NCB official claims that a number of people have been framed in false cases…Panchnamas were drafted at NCB office. We demand an investigation into this: Maharashtra Minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik was quoted as saying by ANI
Malik also claimed that Wankhede had sought the call detail record of his family member from the police.
Wankhede in his affidavit submitted to a Mumbai court on Monday claimed he was under a “lurking threat of arrest as it does not suit some vested interests for conducting an honest and impartial investigation”.
The official had also claimed that he was being personally targeted by a well-known political figure (Malik), and the only reason he can fathom is that the NCB had arrested “this person’s son-in-law Sameer Khan”.
Malik said he is forwarding a letter written by ‘someone in NCB about the various illegal activities of Wankhede’ to the agency’s DG S N Pradhan.
I have received a letter from an unnamed NCB official. I am sending this letter to DG Narcotics requesting him to include this letter in the investigation being conducted on NCB’s Sameer Wankhede. We demand there should be a probe, Malik told ANI
“I have seen the letter. We will take necessary action,” Mutha Ashok Jain, Director General, Narcotics Control Bureau in Mumbai on Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik sharing a letter claiming fraud within Narcotics Control Bureau told ANI
