Nawab Malik vs Sameer Wankhede : NCB Cordelia cruise ship raid to arrest of ShahRukh Khan son Aryan

While accused by Wankhede of bearing a personal grudge, the 61-year-old Malik — a five-time MLA, Minister for Minority Affairs and Skills Development, and a spokesperson of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government (MVA) — has got with the row a readymade platform.

eight days after his son-in-law Sameer Khan was granted bail by a court in a drug case, NCP leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik addressed a press conference accusing NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede of foisting a false case, and acting as a “BJP pawn” to harass political opponents.

Since then, Malik has kept up his attacks on Wankhede, and in the process, been instrumental in producing evidence that has raised serious questions about due process in the NCB’s Cordelia cruise ship raid, that led to the arrest of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan, among others.

While accused by Wankhede of bearing a personal grudge, the 61-year-old Malik — a five-time MLA, Minister for Minority Affairs and Skills Development, and a spokesperson of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government (MVA) — has got with the row a readymade platform. His campaign against Wankhede has so far served the three-party ruling coalition well, as it fits with the narrative of a central agency intent on targeting an Opposition-ruled state. Malik’s hardnosed revelations, particularly Wankhede’s alleged links with the BJP, have also given the MVA an attacking edge it had so far lacked.

Sources close to Malik claim he has sourced all his information from scanning television footage and checking social media footprints of the men associated with the case.

Malik brought out proof showing the NCB’s involvement of “outsiders” in Aryan’s arrest, and that, of the agency’s three “witnesses”, one had links to the BJP, another was wanted in cases of cheating, while all three had links to Wankhede.

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