NCB legal adviser files defamation case against Sameer Wankhede

Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) legal adviser Japan Babu, whose audio clip was used by former NCB officer Sameer Wankhede in his petition to claim that the name of Aryan Khan — actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son — had been removed from the chargesheet at the last moment, has filed a case in a Delhi court, seeking a defamation case against Wankhede.

The case was filed at the Delhi magistrate court, Patiala House, on October 6. Wankhede, a 2008 batch IRS officer, had produced a transcript of a conversation he had with Babu to prove that he was right in arresting Aryan Khan after a raid on Cordelia cruise and that Aryan had not been chargesheeted by NCB SIT due to external reasons.

In his petition, Babu, an ILS (Indian Legal Service) officer, said that it came to his notice that Wankhede, in his writ petition/anticipatory bail, “malafidely” claimed that Babu (in a phone call on June 2, 2022) informed him that charges were proposed against Aryan Khan in the original draft complaint prepared by him in the capacity of deputy legal adviser.

However, the said draft was never submitted in the court and the SIT got a separate draft prepared from outside that was presented before the court, which gave a clean chit to Aryan Khan. Wankhede’s petition quoted Babu from the conversation that Wankhede had recorded.