Mumbai, May 19 (UNI) Sameer Wankhede, former Mumbai zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Friday moved the Bombay high court in the alleged ₹25 crore extortion case pertaining to October 2021 Cordelia cruise drug bust in which actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan was arrested.

In his plea which was mentioned Friday for urgent hearing Wankhede urged the court to quash the FIR registered against him by the central agency .

He has also alleged that the CBI action against him is an act of revenge.

The CBI on last Friday registered a corruption case against Wankhede, Vishwa Vijay Singh, then NCB superintendent, and Ashish Ranjan, then intelligence officer of the NCB’s Mumbai zonal unit, as well as private individuals K P Gosavi, Sanville D’Souza, and unknown persons under the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act.

On Wednesday, Wankhede withdrew a petition he had filed in the Delhi high court seeking a stay on the CBI summons, and directions to the agency for a free and fair investigation and to act on the complaints he had made against certain individuals.