India, April 22 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday questioned the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) regarding the basis for issuing notices to its former zonal director Sameer Wankhede over alleged irregularities in two cases supervised by him.

"In every crime, accusation is made against the officers. But why no proper investigation is done," the division bench of justices AS Gadkari and Kamal Khata asked the NCB, expressing displeasure over the NCB issuing notices to Wankhede without verifying the contents of an anonymous letter against him.

The anonymous letter, received by former minister Nawab Malik in 2021, alleged irregularities in the arrest of a Nigerian drug peddler and a purported drug case involving UK-based actress Sapna Pabbi...