Mumbai: Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik fired a fresh salvo at Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede on Friday, claiming that he got a licence for a bar at the age of 17, which is illegal.
Malik released documents, which showed that a bar and restaurant registered in the name of Sameer Wankhede had been operating since 1997.
The minister said that Wankhede got the licence, courtesy his father Dnyandev Wankhede, who was then with the excise department. “He was 17 years old and getting a bar licence at that time in illegal,” he said
These three allegations – extortion in the case of Aryan Khan, forging a caste certificate for a government job and running a bar and concealing the information – will cost Wankhede his job, he added.
Confirming that the licence was in his name, Wankhede told TOI his father had the power of attorney since he joined the all-India service. “Nothing illegal in it. I have mentioned the specific information on the licence for the bar and restaurant in my annual immovable property returns since I joined the service in 2006. In fact, all the income from the business has been mentioned in my income-tax returns,” he was quoted as saying by the national daily.
According to records of the excise department, the licence of Hotel Sadguru in the name of Wankhede was issued on October 27, 1997. It is valid up to March 31, 2022.
