Summary:
Mumbai, Dec 6 (PTI) The Narcotics Control Bureau"s (NCB) Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede, who was accused of forging his caste certificate by Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik, visited the memorial of Dr B R Ambedkar here on Monday on the latter"s death anniversary.
Wankhede later told reporters he is inspired by Ambedkar in his "fight for truth" and expressed confidence of winning it, while Malik, without naming the NCB officer, implied it is the impact of the fight he put up that “some people” have started coming to the "Chaityabhoomi", the place where the architect of the Indian Constitution was cremated.
The NCB officer in October this year led a raid on a cruise ship and drugs were claimed to have been seized onboard.
Actor Shah Rukh Khan"s son Aryan Khan and some other people are accused in the cruise drugs case.
After the raid, Malik had levelled a string of allegations against Wankhede, including that the NCB official was a Muslim by birth and produced a bogus certificate to get the government job.
He had claimed Wankhede did not belong to a Scheduled Caste.