Indian Revenue Service officer Sameer Wankhede, who headed the Narcotics Control Bureau in Mumbai was on Monday transferred to the DG Taxpayer Service Directorate in Chennai, an official said. Wankhede was heading NCB, when the enforcement body arrested several persons, including superstar Shah Rukh Khans son Aryan in the controversial drugs-on-cruise case last year.
The NCB, which recently filed a charge-sheet in the drugs-on-cruise case, gave a clean chit to Aryan Khan. An SIT set up by the anti-drug agency claimed the probe led by Wankhede had lapses.
After the end of his tenure at the NCB, the 2008-batch IRS officer was shifted to the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) in Mumbai earlier this year. The same official said that Wankhede is likely to take up his Chennai posting on June 10.
The controversial officer was also in the news during his tenure as Mumbai NCB zonal director for his probe into the alleged drug case linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death.
