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  Aryan Khan bribery case:  In another development in the alleged bribery probe in the Aryan Khan drugs-on-cruise case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede asking him to appear before the agency in Mumbai on Thursday. Earlier on Tuesday, CBI which had booked Wankhede for allegedly demanding Rs 25 crore as a bribe for not framing Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan in the drugs-on-cruise case, said that the deal was closed for Rs 18 crore adding that assets to Wankhade were not proportionate to his known sources of income. According to the CBI FIR copy, the NCB team headed by Sameer Wankhede allowed people who were actually in possession of drugs and the supplier as well to go. The FIR copy said Arbaaz Merchant had confessed of possession Charas to NCB but he was allowed to go. Siddarth Shah who had allegedly supplied charas to Arbaaz Merchant was also allowed to walk free, the C...

  A team from the NCB's vigilance department recorded Sameer Wankhede's statement for a second time at the agency's office in New Delhi on Monday. Ateam of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials has recorded the statement of Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede for a second time, sources told India Today.   Wankhede, who is facing  charges of bribery  and extortion, was with officials of the vigilance department for nearly four hours at the drug enforcement agency's office in New Delhi on Monday.   The NCB had initiated a probe led by Deputy Director General (DDG) Gyaneshwar Singh into allegations levelled against Sameer Wankhede by NCB's independent witness Prabhakar Sail, among others. A team led by the DDG had recorded Sameer Wankhede's initial statement at the NCB's office in the national capital on October 28.   However, sources in the NCB tell India Today that  witness Prabhakar Sail  is yet to record his own statement with the drug ...

Sameer Wankhede, zonal director of NCB's Mumbai unit, spoke exclusively to India Today and said his family was being attacked by Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik and he would take legal recourse in the matter. Sameer Wankhede, zonal director of NCB's Mumbai unit, spoke exclusively to India Today and said his family was being attacked by Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik and he would take legal recourse in the matter. This comes a few hours after  Nawab Malik of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alleged that  Sameer Wankhede was in Maldives during the pandemic when many Bollywood celebrities were vacationing there as well. He alleged that 'vasuli' (extortion) took place in Maldives and Dubai and said he even has photographs to establish the same.   In response, Sameer Wankhede said, "The minister is saying wrong things. It is an absolute lie. I went to Maldives with my children for a vacation. I took proper permission from the competent authority for the same. I d...