Sameer Wankhede had arrested Aryan Khan two years in the past.
Mumbai:
Sameer Wankhede, the previous anti-drugs official who arrested Aryan Khan, the son of actor Shah Rukh Khan, in a medicine case, was granted safety from any “coercive motion” on Friday by the Bombay High Court in an extortion case filed in opposition to him by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director had approached the excessive court docket, requesting it to scrap the First Information Report filed in opposition to him by the CBI for allegedly demanding Rs 25 crore bribe from Shah Rukh Khan to not implicate Aryan Khan within the drug-on-cruise case.
In the petition moved earlier than a trip bench of the excessive court docket, Mr Wankhede had additionally sought safety from any coercive motion similar to arrest.
Aryan Khan was arrested by the NCB on October 3, 2021, after a raid on a cruise ship. He was granted bail by the Bombay High Court after three weeks because the anti-drug company didn’t substantiate its prices in opposition to him.
The CBI charged Mr Wankhede and others for alleged felony conspiracy and menace of extortion, and bribery beneath the Prevention of Corruption Act on a grievance by the NCB.
The probe company has alleged that the NCB, Mumbai Zone, had acquired info in October 2021 associated to the consumption and possession of narcotics substances by numerous people on the non-public cruise ship and that a few of its officers conspired and obtained an undue benefit within the type of bribes from the alleged accused.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday had granted safety from coercive motion to Mr Wankhede for 5 days with the freedom to method the suitable discussion board, which might be the Bombay High Court.
The CBI summoned Mr Wankhede for questioning in Mumbai on Thursday in reference to the case, however he didn’t seem earlier than the company’s staff.