Sameer Wankhede lodged the criticism after getting a clear chit in faux caste certificates case.
Mumbai:
Former Mumbai zonal director of the Narcotics Management Bureau Sameer Wankhede has filed a defamation criticism in opposition to former Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik, based mostly on which town police have registered a case in opposition to the NCP chief, an official stated.
Mr Wankhede lodged the criticism on Sunday after getting a clear chit from the Mumbai district caste certificates verification committee of the Maharashtra Social Justice Division, following a probed for allegedly submitting a faux caste certificates to get a authorities job.
Nawab Malik had alleged that Mr Wankhede submitted a faux caste certificates to get a authorities job.
“Sameer Wankhede approached Goregaon police station and lodged the complaint against Nawab Malik, who is behind bars in an alleged money laundering case,” the official stated on Sunday.
“Police on Sunday registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Malik for defamation on the complaint lodged by the former NCB officer,” the official stated.
The district caste certificates verification committee in its order on Friday stated the Indian Income Service (IRS) officer was not a Muslim by start and it has been confirmed that he belonged to Mahar caste, which is a Scheduled Caste (SC).
Complaints filed by Nawab Malik and others concerning the caste declare of Wankhede and the faith of the caste certificates will not be substantiated. Therefore, the complaints are being rejected because of lack of info within the criticism, the caste committee’s order had acknowledged.
After receiving the committee’s order, Wankhede went to the police station and filed the criticism in opposition to Mr Malik.
Primarily based on the criticism, an FIR was registered in opposition to the politician beneath Indian Penal Code Sections 500 (punishment for defamation), 501 (printing or engraving matter recognized to be defamatory) and provisions of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the official stated.
“Goregaon divisional ACP will conduct a probe into the case,” he stated.
Wankhede had come into limelight following the NCB’s high-profile raids in October 2021 on a Mumbai cruise after which the company arrested actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan and 19 others, and claimed to have additionally seized some narcotics.
The NCB had later given a clear chit to Aryan Khan.
