The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday searched 29 locations in connection with the graft charge against former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) official Sameer Wankhede and four others, related to the 2021 cruise ship case in which Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was arrested and later given a clean chit.
As alleged, the officials had planned to extort about ₹25 crore from the family members of those shown as accused in the cruise case, by threatening to invoke the charges related to possession of drugs. “A token amount of ₹50 lakh as bribe was allegedly obtained in furtherance of this conspiracy by the said persons,” read the CBI statement.
