Chief of NCB SIT that gave Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan a ‘clear chit’ in medicine case takes VRS on ‘private grounds’ |

NCB deputy director common (DDG) Sanjay Kumar Singh, who headed an SIT that gave a clear chit to actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan within the drugs-on-cruise case, has taken VRS simply 8 months earlier than his retirement. The 1996-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from the Odisha cadre is at present heading the Narcotics Management Bureau‘s (NCB’s) south-west and southern area as its DDG.
He’s additionally holding an enquiry in opposition to former NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede on prices of alleged irregularities whereas conducting an investigation into two drug instances when the latter headed the NCB Mumbai workplace.

Singh informed PTI that he sought voluntary retirement from service (VRS) on purely “private grounds” and that he has utilized for a similar on February 29.

His VRS is efficient from April 30. He was imagined to retire in January 2025.
“I’ll proceed doing the job until April 30,” he stated.

A particular investigation group (SIT) headed by Singh had given a clear chit to Aryan Khan and 5 others in Might 2022 citing “lack of adequate proof” in opposition to them within the drugs-on-cruise case.
Aryan Khan and quite a lot of others had been arrested by the NCB in October 2021 in Mumbai on medicine prices by a group headed by Wankhede.
Singh has earlier served within the CBI.