In the ongoing war between political super-snoop versus narcotics super-sleuth, Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik on Thursday said that NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede's School Leaving Certificates (SLC) show him to be a 'Muslim'.
The first is from St. Paul High School Dadar, which he left on June 27, 1986 as a Class 2 student a year after admission (June 13, 1985), to join the St. Joseph School, Wadala, owing to shifting to a new address, both in south-central Mumbai.
The two handwritten certificates -- as was the norm in those days -- show identical details, including the pupil's name as Sameer Dawood Wankhede, DoB 14-12-1979 in words too and religion as 'Muslim'.
"I have already submitted these and other details to the Hon' Bombay High Court, which will pass its interim orders later today. Wankhede has been indulging in frauds and is an expert in creating 'fake certificates'," Malik said.
The Wankhede family countered Malik by producing a computer-generated certificate of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation which shows the name as Sameer, mother's name as Zahedbano and father as Dnyandeo Kachruji Wankhede.
Dismissing these contentions, Malik pointed out that the BMC has scanned all the original old handwritten documents and the SLCs of the two schools are from those electronic records.
"Sameer Dawood Wankhede has been producing such fake certificates. I have submitted all the documents to the High Court, the Mumbai and Maharashtra Police chiefs, the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and demanded a detailed investigation," Malik said.
The NCP Minister reiterated that Wankhede -- an officer of IRS-2008 batch, currently with NCB Mumbai -- will definitely lose his job which he got on the basis of furnishing such 'fraudulent documents', and more revelations would follow to reveal the truth.
Malik had approached the Bombay High Court yesterday with the documents in connection with a defamation suit filed by Wankhede’s father Dhyandev , reports from news portal Live Law stated.
Wankhede’s father had sought damages to the tune of Rs 1.25 crore from Malik for making false and defamatory statements against him and his family.
Malik had earlier filed an additional affidavit as per the high court directions which had questioned him on Wednesday whether he (Malik), as a public officer, had verified the information concerning NCB officer Sameer Wankhede and his family, before putting it out in the public domain through his Twitter handle.
Malik in the affidavit said that he had “reasonably verified” the documents.
The five-page affidavit read, “I say that I have reasonably verified the documents contained in the first part.”
As far as Sameer Wankhede’s birth certificate is concerned, the affidavit states that record of the same is maintained by “E ward” of the BMC. “I say that I have verified the same and entry of the birth of Sameer Wankhede, for which the corporation has maintained the record can be found in the register for record of birth at Sr. No. 3744 of concerned year,” read the affidavit.
He further said that "as far as the nikahnama of the first marriage of Sameer Wankhede with Dr Shabana Quraishi is concerned, the same is given to me by a relative of the first wife.”
Malik has been making a series of allegations against Sameer Wankhede, from forging documents to get a government job to lying about his religion to carrying out "bogus" drug raids. The IRS officer has denied all the allegations.
(With IANS inputs)
