Sameer Wankhede’s school leaving certificate shows he is Muslim: Nawab Malik

Mumbai: Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik on Thursday alleged that NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede’s School Leaving Certificates shows him to be a 'Muslim.'

Addressing a media conference here, the National Spokesperson of Nationalist Congress Party released the purported School Leaving Certificate of Wankhede, when he left one school to join another due to 'change of residence' status, and said that the NCB officer had allegedly produced a fake caste certificate to land a plum central job in reserved category.

The first is from St Paul High School Dadar, which he left on June 27, 1986 as a Class II student, a year after admission (June 13, 1985), to join St Joseph School, Wadala, owing to shifting to a new address, both in south-central Mumbai.

The two handwritten certificates - as was the norm in those days - show identical details, including the pupil's name as Sameer Dawood Wankhede, DoB 14-12-1979 in words too and religion as ‘Muslim’.

He said that he has already submitted these and other details to the Bombay High Court, which will pass its interim orders later today.

The NCP leader further said, Sameer Dawood Wankhede has been producing such fake certificates... I have submitted all the documents to the High Court, the Mumbai and Maharashtra Police chiefs, the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and demanded a detailed investigation."

Malik reiterated that Wankhede, an officer of IRS 2008 batch, currently with NCB Mumbai, will definitely lose his job, which he got on the basis of furnishing such 'fraudulent documents,' and more revelations would follow to reveal the truth. (UNI)