Walse Patil, speaking to reporters in Mumbai, said, Prabhakar Sail has been given police protection. Malik claimed earlier in the day that Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede used forged documents, including his birth certificate. Malik tweeted a photo of the purported certificate, saying Sameer Dawood Wankhede ka yahan se shuru hua furjiwada. “I had a brief discussion about this issue (alleged forging of documents by Wankhede) with Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. However, a senior NCB official had denied the allegations, terming them as "completely false and malicious".

Source: The Telegraph October 25, 2021 21:12 UTC