Today, former Narcotics Control Bureau officer Sameer Wankhede approaches the Bombay High Court seeking the quashing of an FIR filed against him by the CBI for allegedly demanding ₹ 25 crore bribe from superstar Shah Rukh Khan for not implicating his son Aryan Khan in the Cordelia cruise drug bust case.

Wankheda filed a petition before a vacation bench of the high court, Sameer Wankhede also sought that no coercive action related to the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) first information report (FIR) be taken against him.

The bench will hear his plea later in the day.

Case Brief- 

In the said matter, the CBI filed the FIR against Sameer Wankhede and four others recently.

Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan's son Aryan Khan was arrested by the NCB on October 3, 2021, after a raid on the Cordelia cruise ship. He was granted bail by the Bombay High Court after three weeks as the anti-drug agency failed to substantiate its charges against him.

The CBI charged Sameer Wankhede and others for alleged criminal conspiracy and threat of extortion, besides under provisions pertaining to bribery under the Prevention of Corruption Act on a complaint by the NCB.

The probe agency has alleged that the NCB, Mumbai Zone, had received information in October 2021 related to the consumption and possession of narcotics substances by various individuals on the private cruise ship and that some of its officers conspired and obtained an undue advantage in the form of bribes from the alleged accused.

Yesterday, Delhi High Court grants protection to Sameer Wankhede in the Aryan Khan bribery case

The CBI summoned Sameer Wankhede for questioning in Mumbai on Thursday in connection with the case, but he did not appear before the agency's team.