Dikhyaa Mohanty 
The Narcotics Control Board (NCB) officer who had detained son Aryan Khan in the suspected drugs-on-cruise case in 2021, Sameer Wankhede, was one of several people named in a corruption complaint filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday.
Wankhede and others allegedly wanted a Rs 25 crore payment from CBI officers, according to NDTV, in exchange for avoiding implicating Shah Rukh Khan’s son in the Cordelia cruise ship case. Before hiring Wankhede and several other members of his team, CBI searched throughout Mumbai, Delhi, Ranchi, and Kanpur.
On October 2, 2021, Wankhede, the NCB’s zonal chief for Mumbai, led a squad in a raid on a cruise ship off the coast of Mumbai. Drugs were reportedly found on Aryan and other people who were arrested. Aryan was imprisoned for four weeks before the NCB in May 2022 found him innocent of all allegations for ‘lack of adequate evidence’.
Prior to Wankhede’s transfer to Chennai’s Directorate General of Taxpayer Services in May, a Special probe Team (SIT) established by NCB asserted that the probe was flawed.
