Sameer Wankhede includes ’emotional talks’ with Shah Rukh Khan as part of his plea: Reports

While the Bombay High Court (HC) on Friday ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) not to take any “coercive action” until May 22 against the former zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Sameer Wankhede in the Cordelia cruise ship ‘drug search’ case, media reports claimed that the statement filed by the officer at the HC included parts of his alleged WhatsApp conversation with actor Shah Rukh Khan, in which the latter he allegedly “pleads relief for his son, Aryan.”

News18 was unable to independently verify the veracity of these chats.

According to media reports, in chats dating from October 3, 2021 to October 15, 2021, Wankhede allegedly claimed that Khan “begged as a father” that they “send his son home” as his “spirit would be destroyed”. . The officer reportedly responded that he “wanted to look towards children in a reformatory approach.”

Wankhede claimed that these alleged chats prove that the extortion claims are false.

Wankhede, along with his officers VV Singh and Ashish Ranjan and two other civilians, who acted as punchas, have been charged with demanding a Rs 25 crore bribe from Khan for not implicating Aryan in the case. The CBI claimed that the deal was later settled for Rs 18 crore, with Rs 50 lakh being taken as a bribe. The officer has moved the HC seeking the nullification of the first information report (FIR) filed by the CBI. The FIR is based on the report of the Special Investigation Team (SET).

The CBI had summoned Wankhede for questioning in Mumbai on Thursday in connection with the case, but he did not appear before the agency. Wankhede, who is now an official with the Indian Revenue Service (IRS), has maintained that he is “honest” and that “this is a personal attack” against him.