28 October,2021 03:54 PM IST | Mumbai | Faizan Khan
Bombay High Court | File Pic
The zonal head of Narcotics Control Bureau's (NCB) Mumbai unit, Sameer Wankhede, on Thursday, approached Bombay High Court to seek protection from any coercive action in the extortion probe on him.
He said that he is being personally attacked by the state and his apprehends that he could be arrested. He also prayed to the court to transfer his case to CBI or some such central agency.
However, the Bombay High Court has disposed his petition. Mumbai Police have assured the court that a notice of three days will be served to Wankhede before any coercive action.
On a related note, Kranti Redkar Wankhede, the wife of NCB's Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede, wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday, seeking justice in the wake of the "attack on her family and her personal life".
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She posted the letter on her Twitter handle and tagged it to the Maharashtra CMO.
In her letter to the CM, the NCB official's wife, said, "Being a Marathi person, I expect some justice from your side as my personal life is unnecessarily being dragged into a controversy. Had late Balasaheb Thackeray (father of Uddhav Thackeray) been alive today, he would not have tolerated such personal attack on a woman's dignity."
