Keep an eye on me, Nawab Malik tells probe agencies as he heads to Dubai

The NCP National spokesperson has been in the limelight for carrying out an unprecedented 'in-depth investigation' against Sameer Wankhede

Maharashtra’s minority affairs minister and NCP chief spokesperson Nawab Malik - who has opened a floodgates of allegations against NCB Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede, is headed for Dubai on a trip.

However, before he leaves, he sent out a cryptic message.

“Hello Everyone, this is to inform you that I am traveling to Dubai after taking all required permissions from our Central and State Governments,” Malik tweeted.

"I will be back in India on the 24, November 2021. Requesting all government agencies to keep an eye on me and track my movement,” he said.

In a press conference on Friday, Malik claimed that Wankhede's father Dnyandev Wankhede who was with the state Excise department got the licence in Sameer Wankhede's name in 1997.

"In 1997, Sameer Wankhede was not even an adult. He was 17 years old and getting a bar licence at that time was illegal," the minister claimed, pointing out that the bar license has been renewed from time to time.

Through his series of media briefings since early October, Malik has slammed Wankhede of questionable links, carrying out a "fraudulent" (farzi) raid on the luxury ship Cordelia Cruise on October 2, allegedly letting off certain select persons or his friends and specifically "targeting" film personalities like Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan, to get maximum publicity with little recovery of drugs.

Once, he had even accused Wankhede of going to Maldives to allegedly finalise extortion deals with glamour world personalities, which the officer had vehemently denied.

Finally, the cornered Wankhede family moved the Bombay High Court with a defamation suit of Rs 1.25 crore and sought 'interim relief' to gag Malik's defamatory statements in public, which will be decided upon on Monday (November 22).

With IANS inputs.

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