Overview
- The NCB, which filed an affidavit Tuesday, said its checks into ex-Mumbai zonal chief Sameer Wankhede rely on two non-anonymous complaints and not on any request from NCP leader Nawab Malik.
- The agency said the exercise remains at a verification stage and that summons were meant to give Wankhede a fair chance to explain his side.
- The Bombay High Court adjourned the case for two weeks after Wankhede sought time to study the filing before a bench of Justices A. S. Gadkali and Kamal Khata.
- Between November 2023 and March 2024, the NCB sent eight notices asking Wankhede to appear before Deputy Director General Sanjay Singh, who leads the preliminary check.
- Wankhede argues he is being targeted after the 2021 Aryan Khan cruise case, while separate CBI and ED cases filed in 2023 remain pending and he has interim protection from coercive action.