Sameer Wankhede Asserts That He Spoke on WhatsApp With Shah Rukh Khan

MUMBAI: Sameer Wankhede, a former official of the Narcotics Control Bureau, has produced WhatsApp exchanges he allegedly had with Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan to demonstrate his innocence. He is accused of trying to extort Rs 25 crore from the star in exchange for the release of his son Aryan Khan from a drug case.

In a petition that Wankhede submitted to a court in response to the case against him, he included a string of communications that he said he exchanged with Shah Rukh Khan. Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan was taken into custody and charged with narcotics possession and use in 2021 under the direction of Sameer Wankhede and an NCB squad.

The pictures appear to show Shah Rukh Khan allegedly pleading with Sameer Wankhede, the NCB Mumbai Zonal director at the time, to prevent Aryan from being imprisoned because it would "destroy his spirit."

Shah Rukh Khan also tells the police in the Wankhede-produced talks that Aryan doesn't deserve to be imprisoned like a seasoned felon. The following are some of the chat messages that Sameer Wankhede has included in his petition:

"Get your guys to go slow for Gods sake. I swear I will stand by you at all times to come and assist you with what all you are trying to achieve good. It's a man's promise and you know me enough to know I am good for it. I beg you to please have mercy in me and my family. We are a simple set of people and my son has been a bit wayward, but he doesn't deserve being in a jail like a hardened criminal. You also know that. Please have a heart man, please I beg you."

"I beg you man, please don't let him be in that jail. He will break as a human being. His spirit will be destroyed because of some vested people. You promised you will reform my child not put him in a place where he may come out completely battered and broken."

"Please tell them to go easy man and let me get my son home. Please. There is nothing more I can say or do but beg you. You have noticed my behaviour through all this. You know I would never stand by anything against what you are doing. I believed it when you said you are thinking of Aryan as your own and want to make him a better person. I haven't done anything to not help my son get that reformation. I haven't been in press. I haven't made a statement. I have just believed in your goodness. Please please don't let me down as a father."

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