Mumbai: Adding to the woes of the beleaguered NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede, yet another complaint has been filed against him, wherein an advocate has approached police, asking them to register an offence. The complainant, advocate Jayesh Wani, has asked the police to register an offence of cheating and forgery along with a criminal conspiracy case against him amid the caste certificate row. Wankhede and his father have already denied the claims about his religious conversion and continued to state that they were born Hindus and never converted to Islam.
In his application, the advocate attached Sameer’s father’s school document, in which his name was mentioned as Dnyanba K Wankhede and also attached Sameer’s birth certificate dated in 1972, in which his father’s name was mentioned as Dawood Wankhede. The advocate claimed that with the said documents it is evident that Sameer Wankhede’s father had changed his religion either before marriage or after marriage but before Sameer’s birth.
The applicant further claimed that, as the son gets his religion from his father and as a member of the Muslim community he cannot benefit from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act. He also claimed that Wankhede had produced false documents in order to secure a government job.
He requested police to turn his written complaint into a First Information Report (FIR) and register an offence under Sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant), 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code. He also requested the police to register the offence before commencing investigation.
In the application, Wani has also mentioned Sameer Wankhede’s nikahnama and the statement of the Kazi who solemnised the marriage and had claimed that ‘nikah’ was possible only when both the bride and the groom were Muslim.
Already several complaints and counter-complaints have been filed against the NCB director and against NCP minister Nawab Malik who has accused Wankhede of several wrongdoings. Police have already formed a special investigation team under Assistant Police Commissioner (ACP) Milind Khetle of the Azad Maidan division to probe the complaints.
As part of their probe, police have recorded the statement of Prabhakar Sail, an independent witness in the alleged cruise drug bust case. Sail had levelled ‘extortion’ charges against NCB officers. Police have also summoned BJP worker Manish Bhanushali to record his statement. Bhanushali is also an independent witness in the case.
