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Former NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede on Friday moved the vacation bench of the Bombay High Court seeking no coercive action against him in the Aryan Khan drugs and extortion case.
The Delhi court has provided interim protection to Wankhede till May 22 and has asked him to move the court in Mumbai. On the basis of the interim protection, Wankhede did not appear before the CBI on Thursday.
The CBI had summoned Wankhede for questioning on Thursday in connection with alleged demand of Rs 25 crore from Shah Rukh Khan for not implicating his son Aryan Khan in the Cordelia cruise drug bust case
Sameer Wankhede, the former anti-drugs official who arrested Aryan Khan, the son of actor Shah Rukh Khan, in a drugs case, had made multiple trips abroad with his family and owned vast property disproportionate to his income, says a report by NCB.
In Wankhede’s case, the entire issue revolves around the Rs 25 crore allegedly demanded from actor Shah Rukh Khan, to protect his son Aryan from arrest, after the latter was caught in a raid on the Cordelia cruise ship by the NCB.