A 35-year-old assistant film director found himself in a filmi situation, when he was abducted by six ‘Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officers’ and then asked to pay Rs 3 lakh to avoid being arrested recently. It turned out they were fake and the Mumbai crime branch’s unit IX on Sunday arrested three of them. They had allegedly threatened the Andheri resident with arrest for supplying drugs. The police are looking for the other accomplices.

According to the police, on Wednesday the complainant met a friend at a bar in Andheri. At about 9:00 pm when he stepped out to go home, six men who arrived in two auto-rickshaws asked him to sit in one of the vehicles.