The Special Enquiry Team (SET) of the Mumbai police, probing the allegations of extortion by NCB officers and others in the cruise drugs case, has established that extortion did happen. “Prima facie, the probe suggests KP Gosavi impersonated an NCB officer to extort money from Pooja Dadlani, actor Shah Rukh Khan’s manager,” said an officer. To register an offence, there needs to be a complaint, hence Dadlani has been summoned. The Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) panch witness in the cruise drugs case, Prabhakar Sail, had made the extortion allegation.

“It has been established that extortion happened. The SET’s probe conducted so far suggests that Gosavi impersonated as NCB officer to convince Dadlani and extort money from her to get Aryan Khan, son of Shah Rukh Khan, out of the case. As far as the role of NCB officers are concerned that can be investigated after the offence is registered, and for that the victim of the extortion has to register a complaint,” a Mumbai police officer privy to the investigation told mid-day.