North India Statesman
[ad_1]
Mumbai: Mumbai Police has informed the Bombay High Court against former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede in the atrocities case against NCP leader Nawab Malik that they are closing the case due to lack of evidence.
An Indian Revenue Service (IRS) official registered a case against Malik under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Anti-Atrocities) Act at Goregaon police station in August 2022.
Wankhede, additional commissioner in the Directorate General of Taxpayers Services and a member of the Mahar Scheduled Caste, alleged in the petition that he and his family had to face mental stress and humiliation due to police inaction in the case. The case should be handed over to CBI.
On January 14, Additional Public Prosecutor S. donkey. Kaushik said. Revati Mohit informed the bench comprising Dera and Neela Gokhale that the police have investigated the case and have decided to file a C-summary report. C-Summary Report is filed when the police comes to the conclusion that there is no evidence in the case that the matter is neither true nor false.
Such report is filed before the concerned trial court and the complainant can challenge it. The court may accept or reject the report after hearing all the parties.
Considering the statement of the police, the application was disposed of by noting that there is nothing worth considering in the application. However, the court can take appropriate action for Wankhede by going before the appropriate forum as per law. “We have not given any opinion in relation to the applicant’s complaint or the investigation, all parties have an open view.” In December 2024, the court asked the police to investigate and draw a logical conclusion to the case.
Wankhede, in his police complaint, had alleged that Malik had made derogatory comments against Wankhede and his family members on the basis of their caste in interviews and on social media. Malik has not been arrested yet in this case nor has any chargesheet been filed against him.
In the petition filed in the High Court on November 20, Wankhede had claimed that the police have not yet started the investigation and the case should be handed over to the CBI. Dada also demanded a court monitored investigation. The petition states that the petitioner and his family members have suffered continuous torment and humiliation due to the lasadia account of the police machinery.
It was further reported that in 2021, Wankhede’s father filed a defamation case against Malik and the court ordered Malik not to make any further statements, although Malik reportedly continued to make derogatory remarks.
It has been said in the petition that the use of political force is affecting the police machinery and hindering the investigation. Malik made this statement after his son-in-law Sameer Khan was arrested in a drug case in 2021. Earlier, the officer had filed a complaint against the Scheduled Caste Commission to take action against Malik in October 2021.
Wankhede became the center of controversy after the arrest of actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan in connection with the alleged seizure of drugs from the Cordelia cruise ship in Mumbai. After three weeks, Aryan got bail from the High Court.
