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Probe ordered into Malik’s remarks against Wankhede’s forged docs

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Mumbai: A sessions court in Maharashtra’s Washim district has directed police to conduct a probe into the alleged remarks made by NCP leader Nawab Malik against Sameer Wankhede, the former Mumbai zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).

Malik last year said Wankhede had submitted forged documents to obtain his caste certificate. The NCP leader also made defamatory remarks against the NCB officer.

Refuting all the allegations, Wankhede said Malik was targeting him as the NCB had arrested Malik’s son-in-law in a drugs case.

Subsequently, Sanjay Wankhede, a cousin of the NCB officer, had filed a complaint seeking probe against Nawab Malik under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

The sessions court on Tuesday passed the order on the complaint.

In the order, Additional sessions judge H M Deshpande directed the Washim police to investigate the matter and submit a report.

The court observed that the police have not taken any action despite a complaint lodged in November 2021 by Wankhede in this regard.

Sanjay Wankhede claimed he first wrote to the Washim police demanding for a case to be registered against Nawab Malik.

But when the police did not take any action, he filed a complaint with the sessions court seeking a probe against the NCP leader.

Considering the allegations made by the Wankhede family in the complaint, especially regarding the caste certificate, the court on Tuesday passed the order on the said complaint.

The Enforcement Directorate(ED) arrested Nawab Malik in February, 2022 in a money laundering case and he is in judicial custody and currently undergoing treatment in a hospital.

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