In the case registered against Sameer Wankhede and the other four accused, the CBI has revealed how these people framed Oryan Khan, son of Shahrukh Khan. Sameer Wankhede is an IRS officer of the 2008 batch and was posted as Director of the Mumbai Zone in NCB. Sameer included his two officers VV Singh and Ashish Ranjan in this conspiracy with him, who along with KP Goswami and Sanvil D'Souza made this plan of extortion.

Under this plan, on October 2, 2021, Aryan Khan and the other accused were arrested from a private cruise on charges of using drugs. But even before Sameer Wankhede and the other accused could succeed in their plan, this case came into the limelight as Shahrukh Khan's son was also involved in it. Seeing the seriousness of the matter, senior officers started monitoring the matter.

NCB's DDG-NR / CVO i.e. Deputy Director General Northern Zonal Gyaneshwar Singh constituted SET i.e. Special Inquiry Team on 21 October 2021 which investigated the allegations against Sameer Wankhede.

Private cruise raided

The investigation found that Sameer Wankhede, who was the director of the Mumbai zone, along with his team VV Singh, Ashish Ranjan, and two private witnesses KP Goswami and his bodyguard Prabhakar Sail raided the private cruise.

During the investigation, the accused caught 27 people, which is known from the I-Note i.e. Information Note, but later it was changed and 10 names were added, out of which some names were added later. Investigation revealed that some people against whom there was evidence were released on the spot and Aryan Khan against whom there was no evidence was caught.

Siddharth Sah who brought charas to Arbaaz Merchant and NCB officials also recovered charas from Arbaaz but Siddharth was released without any reason while he admitted on the spot that he brought charas to Arbaaz Merchant. given.

KP Goswami took Aryan Khan in his car,

apart from this, Sameer Wankhede asked VV Singh to let Aryan Khan take KP Goswami so that it would appear that KP Goswami is an officer of NCB. KP Goswami not only caught Aryan Khan and took him to the NCB office in his private car, but also showed that he was an investigating officer while other officers were also present there. Apart from this, Sameer allowed KP Goswami, who was just a private witness, to stay with Aryan Khan, click selfies, and record messages in his voice so that he could succeed in his extortion purpose.

It is alleged that after this, KP Goswami along with his partner Sanvil D'Souza demanded 25 crores from Shahrukh Khan in exchange for saving Oryan Khan. The agreement was fixed at 18 crores and 50 lakh rupees were also given. But when the matter came into the limelight and things started getting out of hand, some money was sent back. Goswami was arrested on 28 October 2021 by the Pune police in an old case of cheating.

Chargesheet not filed against 6 including Aryan Khan

After investigation of this entire case, NCB filed a chargesheet against 14 accused arrested from a private cruise on 27 May 2022 but there was no evidence against 6 people including Aryan Khan, so No charge sheet was filed against him. KP Singh's bodyguard Prabhakar, who was present during the raid on the cruise, died of a heart attack in April 2022, a month before the charge sheet was filed.

After NCB's SET investigation, on May 11, 2023, a complaint was given by the NCB officer against Sameer Wankhede, VV Singh, Ashish Ranjan, KP Goswami, and Sanvil D'Souza, after which the CBI registered a case on the same day against Sameer Wankhede and others. Collected important evidence by raiding 29 places of the accused.