Did Sameer Wankhede use fake caste certificate for govt job, asks NCP leader Nawab Malik

Sameer Wankhede at the NCB office. File pic/Suresh Karkera (right) Nawab Malik has been relentless in his attacks on Wankhede

In another salvo, NCP Minister Nawab Malik on Monday questioned whether the Narcotics Control Bureau Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede submitted a fake caste certificate to get a government job.

The Nationalist Congress Party's National Spokesperson Malik tweeted a purported birth certificate and marriage photo of the embattled Wankhede with telling captions: "Yahanse shuru hua farziwada (the fraud started here) and Pehchan Kaun (guess who)".

The birth certificate shows the NCB chief's name as 'Sameer Dawood Wankhede', and the picture is from his (Wankhede's) first wedding with one Dr. Shabana Qureshi, and he later divorced her to get married with Marathi actress Kranti Redkar.

The NCP minister claimed that as per the birth certificate, Wankhede is a born Muslim but allegedly appeared for the civic services (UPSC) exams through a reserved category and became an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer.

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"He has forged the documents to get reservations in the (civil services) examinations and job," Malik contended.

Reacting to Malik's tweet, Sameer Wankhede on Monday issued a statement saying that his father Dnyandev Kachruji Wankhede, a retired Senior Police Inspector of State Excise Department was a Hindu and his mother Late Zaheeda was a Muslim.

"I belong to a composite, multi-religious and secular family in true Indian tradition and I am proud of my heritage," he said in the statement.

Further countering Malik, Wankhede said, "The publishing of my personal documents on Twitter is defamatory in nature and unnecessary invasion of my family privacy. It is intended to malign me, my family, my father and my late mother. The series of acts of Hon'ble Minister over the past few days have put me and my family under tremendous mental and emotional pressure. I am pained by the nature of personal, defamatory and slanderous attacks by the Hon'ble Minster without any justification."

With inputs from Faizan Khan

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