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Mumbai, Oct 21 (PTI) Continuing his tirade against NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede, Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik on Thursday claimed the officer was specifically brought to the agency by the Centre post the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput after which it started "playing games with the film industry", and sought to know the motive behind his visits to the Maldives and Dubai.Wankhede refuted the slew of allegations made so far against him by Malik and said he has never been to Dubai though he has visited the Maldives along with his family after taking permission from the central government.Malik also alleged that Rajput"s girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty was implicated in a “fake case” by the NCB.Wankhede supervised a raid on a cruise liner off the Mumbai coast earlier this month that led to the alleged recovery of drugs, following which Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan"s son Aryan Khan and some other people were arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).Malik has repeatedly claimed the case related to the alleged recovery of banned drugs from the ship was "fake" and arrests were made just on the basis of WhatsApp chats.
The NCP leader"s son-in-law Sameer Khan was also arrested by the NCB in a drugs case in January this year and he was granted bail last month.“After Sushant Singh Rajput"s suicide (in June 2020), a special officer was brought in to the NCB.
The suicide case was handed over the CBI, but the mystery over his suicide or murder remains unresolved.
But, after that, the NCB started playing games with the film industry,” Malik claimed.He said dozens of actors were "paraded "before the NCB merely on the basis of WhatsApp chats.“Attempts were made to implicate certain people in false cases.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire film industry was in the Maldives.
What was the officer and his family doing in the Maldives and Dubai? This has to be clarified by Sameer Wankhede," the NCP spokesperson said.“We demand that he clarify whether he was in Dubai," Malik said.Was his family there in the Maldives when the entire film industry was in the Maldives? What was the reason behind them going there? he asked."We are very clear.