Maharashtra Minister raises questions over NCB official using friends as witnesses during raids
The Hindu
Minister Nawab Malik releases series of photos in fresh exposé
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Minister Nawab Malik has raised questions over Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) official Sameer Wankhede using family friends as panch (witness) during the agency’s raids and subsequent seizures of drugs.
In yet another exposé on Mr. Wankhede, the Minister released a series of photos and panchnama documents, in which Fletcher Patel is used as a panch.
Patel is photographed with Mr. Wankhede and with a woman whom he calls Lady Don. The woman in the photo was the officer’s sister Jasmeen Wankhede, claimed Mr. Malik.
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