The Narcotics Control Bureau vigilance committee’s 3,000-page report was submitted to the competent authority in August this year to take further action against seven or eight officers of the NCB, including a senior officer, for the irregularities and lapses by them in the Aryan Khan case. Shah Rukh Khan’s son was arrested by the NCB on October 3, 2021, along with 15 others in the Cordelia cruise drugs case for alleged attempt to consume drugs, possession, abetment and conspiracy under the NDPS Act. Later, Aryan and five others were exonerated and not named in the case. The probe found evidence of “selective treatment” in the case, indicating that Aryan may have been targeted.
The NCB had in April this year suspended two officers over negligence in a drugs case. These two officers had also been part of the Aryan Khan case. The Centre on May 27, 2022 sought departmental action against Sameer Wankhede for his shoddy probe. On May 30, Wankhede was repatriated to his IRS cadre, and transferred to Madras.
