Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik has alleged that the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has used a ‘family friend’ of Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede as panch (witness) in three different raids. Malik claimed that Fletcher Patel has relations with Wankhede.

Malik has held two press conferences in which he has accused NCB of wrongdoings during the cruise raid in which Shah Ruk Khan’s son and others have been arrested. On Saturday, in a series of tweets, he released a picture of Patel with Wankhede asking, “How can a friend of NCB official be allowed to be a panch?”