New Delhi/Mumbai, May 12 (UNI) The CBI has registered a case in opposition to IRS officer Sameer Wankhede and 4 others for allegedly demanding Rs 25 crore bribe from Aryan Khan, son of actor Shah Rukh Khan, for not implicating him within the Cordelia cruise case and taking Rs 50 lakh from them.

Following this CBI has performed searches at his 29 premises in Mumbai, Delhi and Kanpur, amongst others.

Wankhede was heading the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai zone, throughout the Cordelia cruise drug bust case.He led a crew of officers to raid the Cordelia ship off the Mumbai coast on the evening of October 2, 2021.In the raid, the NCB claimed to have seized 13 grams of cocaine, 5 grams of mephedrone, 21 grams of marijuana, 22 tablets of MDMA (ecstasy) and Rs 1.33 lakh in money, following which they arrested 17 individuals, together with Aryan Khan.

According to an announcement issued by CBI, the central probe company has filed a case in opposition to Sameer Wankhede the then Zonal Director of NCB, Mumbai Zone, Vishwas Vijay Singh then Superintendent of NCB, Ashish Ranjan then Intelligence Officer, KP Gosavi (personal particular person), Sanvile D’Souza (personal particular person) and unknown others below related Sections of PC Act and IPC.

The prompt case was registered on a grievance from NCB, Delhi for conducting investigation by CBI.

It has been alleged that the stated officers of NCB of Mumbai Zone, with the intention to get hold of undue benefit from the individuals in Case No. 94/2021, earlier registered and investigated below the supervision of the then Zonal Director of Mumbai Zone of NCB, had entered into alleged felony conspiracy with others and had allegedly obtained undue benefit from the alleged accused of the case, the assertion stated.UNI AAA CM