Sameer Wankhede removed as investigating officer from Aryan Khan drugs case, Delhi NCB's SIT to take over

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on November 5 removed Sameer Wankhede as the lead investigator in the Mumbai cruise drugs bust case, in which Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan has been implicated, CNN-News 18 reported.
The report quoted top sources in Delhi as saying that an order has already been issued to take Sameer Wankhede off the Aryan Khan drugs case.

Mutha Ashok Jain, Deputy DG, South-Western Region, NCB was quoted by ANI as saying, “A total of six cases of our zone will now be investigated by Delhi teams (of NCB), including Aryan Khan’s case and five other cases. It was an administrative decision."

Responding to the news, Sameer Wankhede told ANI, "I've not been removed from investigation. It was my writ petition in court that the matter be probed by a central agency. So Aryan case & Sameer Khan case are being probed by Delhi NCB's SIT. It's a coordination b/w NCB teams of Delhi & Mumbai."

 A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of NCB officers has been formed to oversee the transferred cases.