Former Mumbai NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede filed two separate petitions in the Bombay High Court urging quashing of the FIR registered against him by Thane police for obtaining a liquor license for a hotel by alleged forgery and also sought restoration of the cancelled license.

Wankhede claimed that actions initiated against him were vindictive as he had arrested Maharashtra cabinet minister Nawab Malik's son-in-law in a drugs case when he was heading the Mumbai Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) unit. The plea for quashing of the FIR will be heard by a division bench headed by Justice S S Shinde on Tuesday. The civil petition seeking restoration of the license will be heard by a division bench headed by Justice GS Patel on Tuesday.