Calling Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede a 'puppet', Maharashtra Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik challenged the officer that he will lose his job within one year.

Addressing party workers in Maval tehsil of Pune district, Malik said, "They have a puppet-Wankhede. He raises bogus cases against people. I challenge Samir Wankhede from this stage that Wankhede will lose his job in a year. He had come to put us behind the bar. The people of this nation will not be silent without seeing you behind bars. Wankhede has been indulged in bogus activities and we have the evidence to prove it. Once those evidences come out he will not be able to continue doing his job any further."