New Delhi: Maharashtra Cabinet Minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik on Wednesday posted purported pictures of the ‘nikah’ of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede.
The NCP leader also posted a screenshot of the ‘Nikah Nama’ of Wankhede with his first wife Dr Shabana Qureshi. “Photo of sweet couple Sameer Dawood Wankhede and Dr Shabana Qureshi” Malik said in a tweet along with a photograph.
Photo of a Sweet Couple
Sameer Dawood Wankhede and Dr. Shabana Qureshi pic.twitter.com/kcWAHgagQy— Nawab Malik نواب ملک नवाब मलिक (@nawabmalikncp) October 27, 2021
This follows a day after Malik shared a letter he had received apparently from an NCB official that claimed that Wankhede had violated rules and framed people in false cases to extort money.
Anti-drugs officer Sameer Wankhede has now reacted to the allegations and have dared the minister to show a proof that he converted his religion.
“I am a Hindu from birth and I come from a Dalit family. I am a Hindu today also. I have never undergone any sort of religious conversion. India is a secular nation and I am proud of it,” Mr Wankhede told reporters this afternoon as the Maharashtra Minister continues to accuse him of using a fake birth certificate for his government job. The minister has said he “will quit politics if proven wrong”, said Wankhede on Wednesday.
“My father is a Hindu and my mother was a Muslim. I love them both. My mother wanted me to follow Muslim customs for my marriage. But the same month, I got my marriage registered under the Special Marriage Act… because when people of two different religions get married, the marriage is registered under this Act”.
“Later, we got divorced legally. If I have converted to another religion… Nawab Malik should show the certificate… a proof. My father will show the marriage certificate under the Special Marriage Act”, he further added.
Meanwhile, Wankhede’s father Dnyandev Wankhede said, “I myself am a Dalit…all of us, my ancestors are Hindus… how can my son be Muslim. He (Nawab Malik) should understand this.”
#WATCH | I myself am a Dalit…all of us, my ancestors are Hindus… how can my son be Muslim. He (Nawab Malik) should understand this…: NCB officer Sameer Wankhede’s father Dnyandev Wankhede pic.twitter.com/2DEk5EClZT
— ANI (@ANI) October 27, 2021
