Bombay HC Grants Sameer Wankhede Interim Protection Till February 28
Thane’s Kopri Police Station has summoned Wankhede to appear before it today at 11 am
Mumbai: Bombay HC has granted former Mumbai Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede interim protection from coercive steps like arrest till February 28.
FIR was filed against Wankhede in connection with an alleged forgery case on a complaint by the Maharashtra Excise Department’s Shankar Gogavale.
Thane’s Kopri Police Station has summoned Wankhede to appear before it today at 11 am.
Meanwhile, Wankhede has moved the Bombay High Court seeking quashing of the FIR by Thane Police against the alleged fraudulent bar license. The court has fixed February 22 for hearing the matter.
He had filed another petition in the Bombay High Court seeking restoration of the bar license cancelled by the Thane Collector.
Kopri police said on Sunday that an FIR has been registered against Wankhede in Thane in Mumbai for allegedly forgery to obtain a hotel license by misrepresenting his age.
The action was taken following a complaint by state excise department official Shankar Gogavale, who alleged that Wankhede was under 18 when he obtained the license for Sadhguru Bar in the city in 1996-97.
The Thane Collector had issued an order cancelling the license of the bar.
According to the FIR, the former zonal NCB director was not eligible to enter into these agreements but had claimed to be a principal on a stamp paper of his agreement for Thane’s Sadhguru Hotel.
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