India, March 7 -- The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has set aside the transfer of Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Sameer Wankhede, who courted controversy after arresting actor Shahrukh Khan's son Aryan Khan in a drug bust case in 2021, from Mumbai to Chennai.

The principal bench of the tribunal said the transfer order issued by the revenue department in May 2022 "failed to uphold their own policy" and "smacks of their bias towards the applicant".

Wankhede, a 2008 batch IRS officer, was posted as zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in Mumbai in October 2021, when he courted controversy by arresting Aryan Khan. He was then repatriated back to his parent cadre, revenue service, and on January 4, 2022, he join...