Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday issued a fresh notice to an Inspector from the Maharashtra Excise Department while hearing a petition by IRS officer and former NCB's zonal director Sameer Wankhede seeking to quash an FIR registered against him by Kopari police station in Thane on a complaint by state excise department.

Court Directs Submission of Cancelled Licence

A division bench of Justices Ajey Gadkari and RR Bhonsale directed Wankhede to submit a copy of the now-cancelled liquor licence, originally issued in his mother's name and later allegedly including him as a minor.

Allegations Regarding Licence

According to the complaint, the documents submitted to them in 1997 for procuring license, for selling liquor in a restaurant and bar in Navi Mumbai, in Wankhede’s name, were

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