Inquiries are also being conducted internally to find out how the license was issued when no proof of age was furnished by Sameer Wankhede: Nilesh Sanghe. Mumbai: The Thane unit of the central excise department has issued a notice to Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede in connection with a bar licence issued to him in 1997. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik had earlier claimed that Wankhede was given the licence despite being ineligible for it.

Inquiries are also being conducted internally to find out how the license was issued when no proof of age was furnished by Sameer Wankhede: Nilesh Sanghe. Mumbai: The Thane unit of the central excise department has issued a notice to Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede in connection with a bar licence issued to him in 1997. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik had earlier claimed that Wankhede was given the licence despite being ineligible for it.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 7 (ANI): The Bombay High Court on Tuesday issued notice to Maharashtra Cabinet Minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik with regard to the statements against Narcotics Control Bureau's Mumbai unit chief Sameer Wankhede's family.

Mumbai Nov 29 PTI The Bombay High Court on Monday quashed and set aside the order of a single bench of the HC that had refused to restrain Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik from making public statements against the Narcotics Control Bureaus NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede and his family A division bench of Justices S J Kathawalla and Milind Jadhav quashed and set aside the order after Malik and Wankhedes father Dnyandev consented that the single bench order be recalled and Dnyandevs grievances against the minister raised through an interim application on his defamation suit filed against Malik be heard afresh by the HC On November 22 a single bench of Justice Madhav Jamdar held that though Maliks tweets against Wankhede particularly those pertaining to allegations of the NCB officer having submitted a false caste certificate to secure the central government job and having accepted illegal gratification while on duty had stemmed out of malice the minister couldnt be completely prohibited from making comments against a public officer Dnyandev then challenged the singe bench order While hearing the appeal last week a division bench of Justices S J Kathawalla and Milind Jadhav held that Maliks statements and tweets against Wankhede did seem to be a clear case of malice and logically he should be restrained from making such comments The bench had also asked if it behoved the minister to make such comments without due verification and why he hadnt first approached the caste scrutiny committee with a formal complaint against Wankhede Malik then proposed that the single bench order be recalled His counsel Karl Tamboly told the HC that Malik will consent to quashing of the order he will file a detailed reply to Dnyandevs interim application and he will not make public statements or tweets against the Wankhedes until further hearing He sought that Dnyandevs application be heard afresh by the single bench On Monday senior counsel Birendra Saraf who appeared for Dnyandev told the division bench that his client had consented to the quashing of the November 22 order The court can say by consent of parties quashing of the order Saraf said The division bench permitted Malik to file a fresh reply affidavit to Dnyandevs interim application that seeks among other things that until his suit is heard finally the minister be restrained from making defamatory statements against him and his family Malik will submit his reply by December 9 Dnyandev will then file his rejoinder responding to Maliks affidavit by January 3 The single bench of Justice Madhav Jamdar will then hear the interim application afresh and complete the hearing within 13 weeks the division bench said Until the hearing on the interim application is complete Malik will not make any public statements or tweets against the Wankhedes the division bench said The statement by respondent Malik on not tweeting or making public statements against the Wankhedes shall continue pending disposal of final order on the interim application the bench led by Justice Kathawalla said Malik has levelled a string of allegations against Sameer Wankhede after he led a drug bust raid on a cruise ship last month following which actor Shah Rukh Khans son Aryan Khan and some other people were arrested The minister had alleged that Wakhede was born a Muslim but falsely claimed to belong to a designated scheduled caste to secure his central government job Wankhede has denied the allegations PTI AYA GK GK

Mumbai Nov 25 PTI Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik told the Bombay High Court on Thursday that he will not post any tweets or make any public statements against NCBs zonal director Sameer Wankhede his father or any of their family members till December 9 the next date of hearing The assurance came after the high court asked the minister whether he has lodged a complaint with the caste scrutiny committee regarding his allegations against Sameer Wankhedes caste credentials and said if he has not done so what was his intention behind the media publicity which it said does not befit a minister The statement on Maliks behalf was made by his counsel Karl Tamboly before a bench of Justices S J Kathawalla and Milind Jadhav after it said that it was inclined to pass an order restraining the minister from making public comments against the Wankhedes till further hearing The bench said that it was apparent that Maliks tweets had stemmed out of malice Why is the minister behaving like this Why should he behave like this we want to know This is nothing but malice Please read the dictionary meaning of malice the HC said The bench was hearing an appeal filed by Dnyandev Wankhede father of Sameer Wankhede challenging the order of a single bench of the high court that had refused on November 22 to restrain Malik from making defamatory statements against him and his family Senior counsel Birendra Saraf who appeared on behalf of Dnyandev before the bench led by Justice Kathawalla submitted that the single bench had recorded in its order that Malik had made allegations against Sameer Wankhede pertaining to his religion and his having received illegal gratification while on duty without due verification The findings of the single bench are that the tweets by Malik had actuated out of malice and animosity and yet no relief was granted to me Dnyandev Saraf said The single judge says that he Malik disregarded the truth and that the documents he submitted in court were either interpolated or not verified he said Saraf further said that the minister had made comments not just against Dnyandev and Sameer Wankhede but against their other family members too He Malik has spared no onemy daughter my dead wife This morning too he has tweeted Saraf said referring to a tweet made by the minister on Thursday morning wherein he posted an image of a document that he called pertained to the last rites of Dnyandevs wife and showed her religion as Muslim Saraf further said that Malik had submitted documents in court casual without verification Tamboly however said that the NCP leader had submitted verified documents before the single bench on affidavit to prove several allegations made against the Wankhedes including the claim that Sameer Wankhede though born a Muslim had falsely claimed in his caste certificate to belong to a designated Scheduled Caste SC category to secure his central government job At this the bench asked if Malik had made any formal complaint before the caste scrutiny committee When Tamboly said no such complaint had been made yet the bench asked why Malik was then making such public statements Any complaint made to the caste scrutiny committee If no then what is he trying to prove Is this for media publicity For claims of caste falsities everyone has a redressal forum the caste scrutiny committee the high court said If there is a caste certificate in his Maliks favor then instead of all this media publicity that he wants everyday especially after his son-in-law was arrested by wankhede why not approach the committeeHe is a ministerdoes it befit him to do all this the bench asked The court further said that if it was obvious that Maliks tweets had actuated out of malice and the same had been recorded as a categorical finding of the single bench then what must logically follow was that the minister be restrained from making further comments until Dnyandev Wankhedes appeal was heard finally by the court Tamboly then sought time to take instructions He said that Maliks daughter-in-law was present in court and that they has decided that instead of getting into a controversy I Malik will not tweet or say anything until the final hearing The high court accepted Tambolys statement but asked why was the ministers daughter-in-law present in the court room when she was not a party to the case Is the ministers entire family involved in this Why is she here the HC asked It however took on record Tambolys statement that no tweets and public statements shall be made against the plaintiff Dnyandev Wankhede and his family members through any means of publicity whether directly or indirectly until December 9 the next date of hearing PTI AYA NP NP

Rejecting the request of Sameer Wankhede’s father, the Bombay High Court has refused to restrain Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik from making or posting statements against the NCB officer.  The court said that even though prime facie Malik’s statements against Sameer Wankhede and his family were made out of malice and personal animosity, he couldn’t be completely prohibited from making any statements against […]

Mumbai Nov 18 PTI The Bombay High Court on Thursday said it will pass an order on November 22 on a plea filed by Dnyandev Wankhede father of NCBs zonal director Sameer Wankhede seeking interim reliefs against Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik including an injunction prohibiting him from posting any defamatory content on social media against him and his family A single bench of Justice Madhav Jamdar on Thursday took on record additional documents submitted by Malik and Dnyandev Wankhede related to the ongoing controversy over the NCB officers caste certificate Malik has been alleging that Sameer Wankhede though born a Muslim had secured a central government job claiming to be from the Scheduled Caste category But Wankhede has denied the allegations levelled against him The documents that both the parties submitted before the court on Thursday include Sameer Wankhedes birth certificate and his school leaving certificate Malik submitted a letter by the Public Health Officer of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC with a copy of the declaration pertaining to the change of name of Sameer Wankhede and two school leaving certificates issued for Wankhede by St Josephs High School and St Paul High School in the city in the 1980s All of these documents Malik claimed showed that Wankhede was born a Muslim and that his fathers real name was not Dnyandev but Dawood As per Maliks claims made before the high court the name of the NCB officers father was Dawood K Wankhede and it was only in 1993 that he got it changed to Dnyandev Wankhede Dnyandev Wankhede however countered Maliks claims and submitted a digitised birth certificate issued by the BMC for Sameer Wankhede and his own caste certificate Dnyandev Wankhedes counsel advocate Arshad Shaikh said these two documents show that Sameer Wankhedes fathers name had always been Dnyandev and that the NCB officer was born a Hindu and belonged to Mahar community a Scheduled Caste He said Sameer Wankhedes birth certificate had initially mistakenly mentioned his fathers name as Dawood but the same had been corrected way back Advocate Shaikh further argued that Malik had been tweeting and making defamatory statements against the Wankhedes without verifying facts He said that as per Maliks own documents submitted in the high court the minister received Sameer Wankhedes birth certificate two days ago in response to his RTI query although he had been making statements on the NCB zonal director being a Muslim and lying about his caste certificate even before receipt of copies of his birth certificate Shaikh further told the high court that the NCP leader must stop calling Dnyandev as Dawood He Malik should not continue to call me Dawood since it was corrected to Dnyandev way back Somehow for the last four days he kept quiet Then he has started again said Shaikh Whether his birth certificate is right or mine that has to be seen he told the high court The documents were submitted and the arguments were made over a defamation plea filed by Dnyandev Wankhede seeking several reliefs against Malik Dnyandev Wankhede had sought as an interim relief a temporary injunction restraining Malik from making any statements in the future about Sameer Wankhede or his family On November 12 the high court had reserved its order on the aspect of interim relief sought by Dnyandev Wankhede in his defamation suit However on November 16 Malik moved the high court seeking its permission to place on record additional documents On Thursday after taking the above-mentioned documents on record Justice Jamdar reserved his order on the interim application filed by Dnyandev pertaining to the temporary injunction against Malik The high court said it will pronounce its order on the same on November 22 The high court directed both the parties to refrain from submitting any fresh documents until it pronounces its order on November 22 The NCB officers father had filed a defamation suit against Malik earlier this month in the high court seeking among other things that the minister be restrained from posting defamatory statements against him and his family on social media He has also sought damages worth Rs 125 crore Malik has been fiercely attacking Sameer Wankhede after the Narcotics Control Bureaus raid on a cruise party last month following which around 20 people including actor Shah Rukh Khans son Aryan Khan were arrested Aryan Khan and some other accused were later released on bail PTI AYA NP NP

Mumbai Oct 25 PTI Narcotics Control Bureaus NCB Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhedes father on Monday said his name is Dnyandev and not Dawood as claimed by NCP leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik Speaking to a news channel he said his son is like Abhimanyu from the epic Mahabharat who is surrounded by enemies but he will come out of this chakravyuh a military foundation to surround enemies like Arjun Hitting back at Malik who has claimed that Sameer Wankhede is a Muslim by birth and his real name is Sameer Dawood Wankhede the Wankhede senior said the NCP leader was playing very low-level politics Malik has released what he claimed the birth certificate of Sameer Wankhede and alleged that the latter had forged documents Speaking to a regional news channel the Wankhede senior said It is an absolute lie that my name is Dawood Wankhede I think there is some malafide intention of Malik behind releasing that birth certificate of Sameer Wankhede and defaming us My name is Dnyandev Wankhede since my birth and it is still the same I completed my graduation and post-graduation and even served in a state government department How is it possible that none of them knew my name was not Dnyandev and it was Dawood How come Malik alone gets the suspicious document he questioned Earlier in the day Sameer Wankhede had denied Maliks allegations of forging documents including his birth certificate saying his fathers name is Dnyandev who was an excise official My wife died six years ago She had once prepared an affidavit in which it is mentioned that my name is Dnyandev Wankhede I even have a valid caste certificate with me And not just me even my relatives have similar documents to establish it the Wankhede senior claimed In a statement Sameer Wankhede had mentioned that his father Dnyandev Kachruji Wankhede retired as senior police inspector of the state Excise department Pune in June 2007 His father is a Hindu and his late mother Zaheeda was a Muslim the official had said When my son and his first wife had a son even on the latters birth certificate my sons full name is mentioned in which my name is stated as Dnyandev Wankhede Those people Malik should understand it God knows from where Malik drew this connection he said Sameer Wankhede had also mentioned that he had married Dr Shabana Qureshi in 2006 under the Special Marriage Act Both of them divorced mutually through a civil court in 2016 Later in 2017 he married Kranti Redkar It looks like Nawab Malik was hurt after his son-in-law Sameer Khan was put behind bars by the NCB earlier He never uttered a word against the NCB when his son-in-law was in jail Malik started speaking out only after he was released the Wankhede senior said When asked about the allegations of pay-off raised by an NCB witness he said if Sameer Wankhede wanted a bribe from Shah Rukh Khan he would have asked the actor to deliver it at home He would not have arrested his Shah Rukh Khans son Aryan Khan and then demanded it An NCB team led by Sameer Wankhede earlier this month allegedly seized drugs onboard a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast following which Aryan Khan was arrested on October 3 Reacting to claims of bribery made by NCB independent witness Prabhakar Sail against Sameer Wankhede the Wankhede senior said Sail seemed thrashed and then forced to give such a statement While talking Sail is coughing drinking water All these are signs of getting beaten up severely Why was he quiet for so many days if he was made to sign some blank papers after the alleged cruise ship raid by NCB officials he asked On Sunday Sail in a statement to the media claimed that Rs 25 crore was demanded by an official of the NCB and other persons including absconding witness K P Gosavi to let off Aryan Khan in the drugs case Sail told media persons that he had overheard Gosavi telling one Sam DSouza over the phone about a demand of Rs 25 crore and to settle at Rs 18 crore as they have to give Rs eight crore to Sameer Wankhede Sameer Wankhede had denied the allegations calling them as a bid to scuttle the probe in the drugs case PTI ND NSK NSK NSK

Mumbai Oct 25 PTI Maharashtra NCP minister Nawab Malik on Monday claimed that Narcotics Control Bureaus zonal director Sameer Wankhede used forged documents including his birth certificate Malik tweeted a photo of the purported certificate saying Sameer Dawood Wankhede ka yahan se shuru hua furjiwada Sameer Dawood Wankhedes document forging started from here Wankhede an IRS officer of the 2008 batch slammed the minister saying his action was defamatory in nature and an invasion of his familys privacy The NCB official said he was pained by the nature of personal defamatory and slanderous attacks by the minister without any justification The series of acts of the minister over the past few days have put me and my family under tremendous mental and emotional pressure Wankhede said in a statement An NCB team led by Wankhede earlier this month allegedly seized drugs onboard a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast following which Aryan Khan the son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was arrested on October 3 Malik has repeatedly termed the cruise drugs bust case as fake On Monday the document posted by Malik on Twitter mentioned the name of the NCB officials father as Dawood Wankhede said his fathers name is Dnyandev who was an excise official Malik has been targeting Wankhede after his son-in-law Sameer Khan was arrested in an alleged drug case The minister had claimed that NCB officials booked Sameer Khan under wrong charges and no banned drug was found in his possession Malik who is also the NCP spokesperson recently claimed that his government will soon put Wankhede behind the bars On Monday talking to a news channel in Nanded Malik claimed that Wankhede is a Muslim by birth In the past 15 days whenever I spoke on various subjects like the Maldives tour of Wankhede I didnt get any answers and they were termed as political allegations But now the truth has come out he said Malik stated that earlier the BJP had said his son-in-law and Aryan Khan are Muslims Later the BJPs troll army tried to create an environment making it a Hindu-Muslim issue via Wankhede he alleged NCB zonal director Wankhedes name is Sameer Dawood Wankhede and he is a Muslim by birth I have published his birth certificate online I had to make an effort to find ithe got the IRS job on bogus certificateI shall reveal more such acts of his bogusgiri he said Malik also alleged that by hiding his religion he Wankhede obtained fake documents and through this the right of a backward class candidate was snatched Notably Union minister Ramdas Athawale on Sunday came out in support of Wankhede and said targeting a Dalit officer who is doing good work is not right Terming Maliks allegations against Wankhede as baseless and mischievous Athawale had defended the officer saying he has not done anything wrong Athawale had also accused Malik of trying to give a religious and casteist colour while targeting Wankhede Meanwhile reacting to Maliks claims Wankhede in a press release said the ministers act of publishing his personal information on Twitter was defamatory in nature and unnecessary invasion of his familys privacy Wankhede said this was intended to malign him his family his father and late mother In the statement Wankhede mentioned that his father Dnyandev Kachruji Wankhede retired as senior police inspector of the state Excise department Pune in June 2007 His father is a Hindu and his late mother Zaheeda was a Muslim the official said Wankhede said he belongs to a composite multi-religious and secular family in true Indian tradition and he is proud of his heritage The NCB official also mentioned that he married Dr Shabana Qureshi in 2006 under the Special Marriage Act Both of them divorced mutually through a civil court in 2016 Later in 2017 he married Kranti Redkar the official added PTI ND ZA AW VT GK GK GK