Digital Desk: According to the Kopri police, an FIR was filed against the IRS official and former zonal director of Mumbai NCB Sameer Wankhede forgery in Mumbai's Thane for allegedly getting a hotel license by intentional fabrication of his age.
The FIR was filed on Saturday night in reaction to a complaint by State Excise Department official Shankar Gogavale, who claimed Wankhede was under 18 when he applied for a license for Sadguru Bar in the city in 1996-97.
The Thane collector has given an order to cancel the bar's license.
According to the FIR, the former zonal NCB director Sameer Wankhede was not authorized to sign these contracts, but he declared significance on a Stamp paper in his contract deed for Thane's Sadguru Hotel.
Notably, NCP politician and Maharashtra Minister Wankhede were accused of getting the hotel's license while yet a juvenile.
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