"How Am I...": Sameer Wankhede On Minister's Tweet On Sister-In-Law

Mr Wankhede has been in the crosshairs of the minister who had earlier also shared purported WhatsApp chats of his sister with an alleged drug peddler

Responding to yet another allegation from Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik that his family is involved in the drugs business, anti-drugs office Sameer Wankhede has said he wasn't even in service when the case happened. Mr Wankhede is the Mumbai zonal head of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and was part of the team that arrested Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan and others in the drug-on-cruise case off the shore of Mumbai. “I wasn't even in service when the case happened in Jan 2008. I married Kranti Redkar in 2017, then how am I associated with the case anyway?” he told news agency ANI. Sameer Dawood Wankhede, is your sister-in-law Harshada Dinanath Redkar involved in the drug business ?You must answer because her case is pending before the Pune court.Here is the proof pic.twitter.com/FAiTys156F

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra's minister for minority affairs Nawab Malik had questioned Mr Wankhede's sister-in-law's involvement in a drugs case. He shared screenshots with the case details in a tweet. “Sameer Dawood Wankhede, is your sister-in-law Harshada Dinanath Redkar involved in the drug business? You must answer because her case is pending before the Pune court. Here is the proof,” he said.

Mr Wankhede's father Dnyaneshwar Wankhede has also filed a defamation case against Nawab Malik for 1.25 crore for dragging his family in the drugs-on-cruise case. He has also requested the Mumbai High Court to ban the media from reporting news on his family.