Sameer Wankhede returns to DRI after his NCB term ends
Indian Revenue Service (IRS) Officer Sameer Wankhede, who held the post of the Zonal Director at the Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB) for Mumbai, will be reporting to the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) headquarters in Delhi after his tenure from NCB ends.
Wankhede's extended tenure with the NCB ended on December 31, 2021 and as there has been no order for his extension, he has been sent back to his parent organisation DRI, that functions as an investigation agency under the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC).
Wankhede was “loaned” to the NCB last year, after the central drugs investigation agency registered a case in connection with the suicide of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, and received a three-month extension later.
Wankhede has been in the limelight for the high-profile raids by the NCB on a Mumbai cruise after which the agency arrested Aryan Khan, the son of actor Shah Rukh Khan, and several others and claimed to have seized some narcotics too.
NCB earlier had also arrested Malik's son-in-law Sameer Khan in a narcotics case and the agency has recently moved the Bombay High Court to cancel the bail given to the latter in this case. Under Wankhede, NCB-Mumbai registered 117 cases and arrested 234 persons including 38 foreign nationals.
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