The principal bench of the CAT, Chairman Justice Ranjit More and member Justice Anand Mathur, on August 21 handed an order on the unique utility by Former Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede searching for quashing of the June 2022 report by the SET.
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT)’s Principal Bench Friday dismissed a overview plea by the Centre and its Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) towards the tribunal’s order which had held that NCB Deputy Director General Gyaneshwar Singh was actively concerned within the Cordelia cruise drug bust probe and couldn’t have been part of the particular enquiry staff (SET).
The principal bench of the CAT, Chairman Justice Ranjit More and member Justice Anand Mathur, on August 21 handed an order on the unique utility by Former Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede searching for quashing of the June 2022 report by the SET.
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Wankhede had claimed that Singh in his capability as then the in-charge DDG of the South-West Region of the NCB, actively supervised the investigation within the Cordelia case.
The Tribunal had perused the WhatsApp chat between Wankhede and Singh from October 3 to October 12, 2021 and had noticed that Singh supervised and instructed Wankhede concerning the probe and in addition gave him a plan of motion.
Aggrieved by the order, the NCB filed a overview plea towards the August 21 order. The similar bench led by Justice More (former High Court decide) Friday famous, “We do not find any error apparent on the face of the record or discovery of new material, which was not available with the review applicants despite due diligence at the time of final hearing. If the review applicants are not satisfied with the order passed by the tribunal, remedy lies elsewhere.”
The panel famous that the NCB via the overview plea was searching for to “re-argue” the case, and the identical was not permissible underneath the Rules and dismissed its “without any merit” overview utility.
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Meanwhile, Wankhede’s plea towards the CBI bribery FIR is pending within the Bombay High Court and he’s protected by interim safety from arrest until additional orders.
The CBI, based mostly on a report of the SET headed by Singh, had levelled costs towards Wankhede and others of allegedly demanding Rs 25-crore bribe from Aryan Khan and others arrested within the 2021 Cordelia drug bust case.
Wankhede had instructed the High Court that the stated SET sought to offer a clear chit to actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan by “suppressing material information and evidence in violation of legal provisions”.
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First printed on: 14-10-2023 at 12:20 IST
