Top Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) official Sanjay Singh, who gave a clean chit to Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan in a drugs case, has taken voluntary retirement.
NCB Deputy Director General Sanjay Singh’s voluntary retirement has been approved by the state government and his last day of working will be April 30. He was supposed to retire in January 2025. “I will continue doing the job till April 30,” he was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
Singh is a 1996 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from Orissa cadre. The reasons behind his move are not yet clear, but sources close to him said after completing his masters in the United Kingdom (UK), Sanjay Singh wanted to shift to the corporate sector and it was possibly a step forward.
Earlier, Sanjay Singh worked with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as a Superintendent of Police (SP) and Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG). He had solved major cases related to the Medical Council, Bar Council, Common Wealth Games, and Chautala teachers’ recruitment scams.
Singh also headed the Odisha Police anti-drugs task force.
He then served as the DDG (Operations) in NCB and was shifted to Mumbai recently as the DDG (Western Zone).
NCB Director General S N Pradhan called Singh, his cadre colleague from Odisha, a “thorough professional who did his job efficiently in every profile be it in the CBI, NCB or Odisha Police”.
A special investigation team (SIT) headed by Singh had given a clean chit to Aryan Khan and five others in May 2022 citing “lack of sufficient evidence” against them in the drugs-on-cruise case.
Aryan Khan and a number of others were arrested by the NCB in October 2021 in Mumbai on drugs charges by a team headed by Wankhede.
(With PTI inputs)
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