Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik Targeted NCB Officer Sameer Wankhede (File)
Mumbai:
Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik – in a heated exchange of words with NCB official Sameer Wankhede that began about the Aryan Khan case and has since included allegations of blackmail and forgery – told the Bombay High Court that He won’t make a statement against his family until December 9.
This comes after a court bench warned Mr Malik of an order if he continued to post what Mr Wankhede’s father – Dhyandev Wankhede – had called “malicious” material.
The assurance of NCP leadership came after Dhyandev Wankhede approached Bombay High Court to challenge an order issued on Monday by a single judge’s bench of the same court.
Under that order, the court denied provisional relief, saying Mr Malik was free to release documents about Sameer Wankhede, his father and family, but only after a reasonable verification of the facts.
During today’s hearing, senior advocate Birendra Saraf (appearing for Dhyandev Wankhede) said that even the steering bench has admits “malicious” intentions behind Mr Malik .’s tweets.
He also pointed out that in the Wankhede family only Sameer is doing public service (against the previous order’s position that any Indian citizen has the right to inspect a public official.
Dhyandev Wankhede complained about Mr Malik’s tweets, in which the latter alleges that Sameer Wankhede was born a Muslim, but falsely claimed he belonged to a designated Scheduled Lineage (SC) to secure a job in the central government.
He has sought temporary relief to ban Malik from making any defamatory statements or tweets or social media posts against him, his son (Sameer Wankhede) or any member any of his family.
Mr Wankhede sued Mr Malik for a defamation case and demanded damages of Rs 1.25.
In an earlier hearing, the court asked Nawab Malik to file an affidavit verifying his claims.
The minister submitted an affidavit stating that his claims were true and that in fact the evidence he presented helped the government take remedial steps against Sameer Wankhede.
The minister’s statement is seen as referring to Mr Wankhede’s removal this month from the Aryan Khan drug case, as well as five others, in the context of his alleged involvement in the Rs 8 sum.
However, Sameer Wankhede accused the minister’s accusations of betraying a grudge against him for arresting his son-in-law (Sameer Khan) in another drug case and was searching for the source of the goods. individual.
Mr Malik told NDTV that the NCB was “hiding” behind his son-in-law’s case, describing his criticism of the agency as a case of a service provider.
With input from PTI
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