Former Mumbai Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede, who was being probed for allegedly submitting a fake caste certificate for getting a government job, was given a clean chit by the caste scrutiny committee, an official told the PTI on Saturday. The order was issued by the panel of Social Justice Department of the Maharashtra government on Friday, he said.

The order says that Wankhede, an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer, was not a Muslim by birth and it has been proven that he belongs to Mahar caste, which is a Scheduled Caste (SC), as per the PTI.