'25-Crores Bribe Demand To Let Aryan Khan Go': CBI's Case Against Officer

Sameer Wankhede is facing allegations of corruption and criminal misconduct.

Actor Shah Rukh Khan's family was threatened that his son Aryan would be framed in a narcotics case unless he paid Rs 25 crore, according to the FIR filed by the CBI against Sameer Wankhede, former zonal director of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).

Mr Wankhede, who hit headlines after the arrest of Aryan Khan and others in an alleged drug bust on a cruise ship off Mumbai in October 2021, is facing allegations of corruption and criminal misconduct.

In its FIR, the CBI has flagged the officer's foreign trips and sale and purchase of expensive wrist watches.

Enquiries into the allegations against Mr Wankhede and Ashish Ranjan, then an intelligence officer with NCB, "could not sufficiently justify their acquired assets as per their declared income", the FIR says. Mr Wankhede, it adds, has "not properly explained his foreign visits and had apparently mis-declared the expenditure on his foreign travels".