NCB officer Sameer Wankhede has sought more time from the Mumbai district caste certificate scrutiny committee to submit his caste validity certificate. The zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau has been accused of submitting incorrect caste information to the government. Wankhede and the complainant were to attend a hearing by the committee on Monday.

Wankhede’s caste certificate has been under the scanner since Maharashtra cabinet minister Nawab Malik shared a copy of his purported birth certificate showing his religion as Muslim. The debate over his caste certificate got more attention after it was found that Wankhede’s school leaving certificate had recorded his religion as Muslim and father’s name as Dawood Wankhede. However, the officer submitted what he claimed was a copy of his school leaving certificate that has no mention of his religion but shows his caste as SC—Mahar community.