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The Delhi High Court connected Friday (October 17, 2025) imposed ₹20,000 costs connected the Central authorities for concealing definite facts successful its plea seeking reappraisal of an bid relating to the promotion of IRS serviceman and erstwhile NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede.
A Bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Madhu Jain said it expected that the Centre would disclose each the facts truthfully earlier filing the plea.
It dismissed the Centre’s petition seeking reappraisal of the court’s August 28 bid by which the authorities was directed to find retired the UPSC’s proposal regarding the promotion of Mr. Wankhede, and beforehand him successful lawsuit determination was specified a commendation.
“We would expect that the petitioner, being the government, arsenic a state, would disclose each facts truthfully earlier america portion filing the writ. For the above-mentioned petition, we disregard the petition with costs of ₹20,000 to beryllium deposited with the Delhi High Court Advocate Welfare Fund,” the tribunal ordered.
Mr. Wankhede, a 2008 batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer, made headlines for allegedly demanding ₹25 crore from Bollywood histrion Shah Rukh Khan’s family by threatening to implicate his lad Aryan Khan successful a cause bust lawsuit during his tenure successful the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Mumbai successful 2021.
In the August 28 verdict, the High Court had upheld the Central Administrative Tribunal’s December 2024 ruling, which had directed the authorities to unfastened the sealed screen pertaining to Mr. Wankhede’s promotion and if his sanction was recommended by the UPSC, past beforehand him to the station of Additional Commissioner with effect from January 1, 2021.
The Centre had approached the High Court, claiming that Mr. Wankhede’s lawsuit was placed successful a sealed screen owed to the cases lodged against him.
The plea was opposed by Mr. Wankhede’s counsel, who sought dismissal of the Centre’s petition connected the crushed that it was a maneuver to harass the officer.
The counsel said though the promotion bid was issued successful January 2021, the Centre delayed its implementation for respective months and lone challenged the CAT’s determination aft Mr. Wankhede initiated contempt proceedings.
He further contended that successful its reappraisal petition, the Centre concealed the information that the CAT, done its August order, had restrained it from proceeding further with the departmental enquiry against Mr. Wankhede.
