Indian Revenue Service officer Sameer Wankhede, who faced charges of securing a job on a fake scheduled caste (SC) certificate, has been exonerated by the Mumbai City District Caste Scrutiny Committee. 

Wankhede, who is officer of the 2008 batch, and served as zonal director of Narcotics Control Bureau, had courted controversy in a drug bust case last year, in which Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan was arrested and later freed without pressing any charges. Wankhede was removed from the probe and later, transferred to Chennai after the Home Ministry recommended action against him for shoddy investigations in the case.