Bribe case: Wankhede showing SRK chats as 'integrity certificate', says CBI; HC grants interim relief
The CBI recently filed an FIR against Wankhede for allegedly seeking a Rs 25 crore bribe for not framing the Bollywood star's son Aryan Khan in the drugs-on-cruise case. Former NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede. MUMBAI: Former NCB zonal director and bribery accused Sameer Wankhede is trying to show the alleged messages exchanged with film superstar Shah Rukh Khan as a ‘certificate of integrity’, the CBI told the Bombay High Court on Monday. The High Court is hearing a petition of Wankhede, who is accused of seeking Rs 25 crore as bribe from the actor for not implicating his son Aryan in the Cordelia cruise ‘drug bust’ case. A vacation bench of Justices Abhay Ahuja and MM Sathaye on Monday extended till June 8 the interim protection granted to Wankhede in the case. Last Friday, the court had directed the Central Bureau of Investigation not to take any coercive against him till May 22. Citing the messages exchanged with Khan, Wankhede, in his petition, has claimed the film super...