Amid Controversies, Sameer Wankhede's Tenure With Anti-Drugs Agency Ends
NDTV
Sameer Wankhede, who was sent back to his parent organisation DRI, has been in limelight following the high-profile raids on a Mumbai cruise in which actor Shah Rukh Khan's son was arrested.
The tenure of controversial Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede with the federal anti-narcotics agency has ended and his services have been put at the disposal of his parent organisation DRI, officials said on Monday.
The charge of the NCB Mumbai zonal unit will be handled in an additional capacity by its Indore zonal director Brijendra Chowdhary.
Mr Wankhede, an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer of the 2008 batch, was sent to the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai zone in August, 2020 "on loan" from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) in the wake of the drugs probe being conducted by the agency into the death of 34-year-old actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
He had been serving as the head or the zonal director of the NCB Mumbai unit since August 31, 2020 and was given some extensions.
