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Mumbai police on October 27 appointed an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP-level) officer to investigate the allegation levelled against the NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede. According to sources, the ACP is identified as Milind Kettle, who'll be leading the probe. Four police stations in Mumbai have already received complaints against the officer so far, all of them will be probed by the ACP, as per sources.

NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede on October 25 retaliated in a press note after the Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik shared Wankhede's personnel documents commending him as a fraud. The officer, who was involved in the raid on the cruise ship, stated, "Publishing of my personal documents on Twitter is a defamatory and unnecessary invasion to my family". ''My father is a Hindu...My mother was a Muslim,'' added Wankhede.

During the questioning by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), actor Ananya Panday on October 21 termed her chat with Aryan Khan about ganja a ''joke''. Furthermore, She said it was ''about cigarettes not weed''. Reportedly, NCB recovered chat messages in Aryan's phone, in which he asked Ananya if she could ''arrange the weed''. To the question, Ananya replied, ''I'll arrange''. However, she's been asked to again come on October 22. 

The Maharashtra government beefed up the security of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, Nawab Malik after he complained he was ''getting threatening calls'', sadi Malik on October 14. Malik alleged he received many threat calls after the press conference conducted by him on the NCB's raid on the cruise ship. Reportedly, the NCB arrested Malik's son-in-law in July during a raid in connection with a drug peddling case.

Sameer Wankhede, the NCB officer who probed the drug case on a cruise liner that led to the arrest of actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan, lodged a complaint against an unknown person accusing him of stalking in Mumbai, on October 11. Wankhede said that the person regularly followed him when he went to graveyard to pray at his mother's grave. He submitted evidence and requested police protection.