Dnyandev Wankhede, the father of NCB's zonal director Sameer Wankhede, approached the Bombay High Court challenging its single-judge bench order that had refused to restrain Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik from making comments and putting social media posts against the anti-drug agency officer and his family.

Dnyandev Wankhede mentioned for urgent hearing his appeal challenging the single bench order and urged a division bench of Justices SJ Kathawalla and Milind Jadhav to grant him relief. His appeal is likely to be heard by the division bench on November 25. On November 22, a single-judge bench of Justice Madhav Jamdar had refused to grant Wankhede any interim relief in his defamation suit filed against Malik, a leader of Maharashtra's ruling party NCP.