The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had filed a money laundering case against former zonal director of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Sameer Wankhede, in 2024, who was accused of demanding ₹25 crore bribe from actor Shah Rukh Khan for not framing his son Aryan Khan in a drug case in October 2021.
As per the latest update on news agency PTI, Sameer Wankhede told the Bombay High Court on Monday (March 23) that he never demanded or accepted a bribe from actor Shah Rukh Khan to spare his son, Aryan Khan, following the latter's arrest in a cruise drugs case.
Sameer Wankhede's counsel, Aabad Ponda, was arguing the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer's plea seeking to quash the FIR registered against him in May 2023 by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on charges of corruption and bribery.
Aabad Ponda told the court on Monday that the CBI has no evidence to establish that Wankhede demanded or received any bribe.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) had received a tip-off about alleged drugs on the cruise ship Cordelia. A search was conducted in accordance with the law and a few persons, including Aryan Khan, were arrested, the counsel added.
Aryan Khan was arrested on October 3, 2021, a day after the controversial raid on Cordelia cruise in Mumbai.
