Sameer Wankhede’s father files defamation case against Nawab Malik, wants ₹1.25 crore in damages

The father of Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede has reportedly filed a defamation suit against Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik in the Bombay high court and sought ₹1.25 crore in damages.

According to a report in India Today, Wankhede’s father Dhyandev Kachruji Wankhede wants a permanent injunction restraining Malik and others “acting under his instructions” from publishing, writing or speaking in the media about the family.

Malik has levelled several allegations against Wankhede, who was recently removed by the NCB from heading the sensational drugs-on-cruise case in which Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan is an accused. He was also in-charge of a case in which Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan is involved.

Among the several charges that the cabinet minister has brought against the NCB officer are extortion and fraudulent use of caste card to obtain his job.