Sameer Wankhede not to probe cruise drugs case; NCB ropes in operations team
The Hindu
A team from Delhi NCB operations will camp in Mumbai to take the probe in these cases forward, officials said.
The has taken away the controversial cruise drugs case and five others from the agency’s Mumbai zonal unit headed by Sameer Wankhede and transferred their investigation to its operations unit based in Delhi, officials said on Friday.
The action has been taken on “administrative grounds”, and as these six have “wider and inter-state ramifications”, they have been transferred to the operations unit in Delhi, NCB Deputy Director General (north-west region) Mutha Ashok Jain told PTI.
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