Mumbai Police to question Shah Rukh's manager Pooja Dadlani in extortion probe

The Mumbai Police's Special Investigation Team has summoned Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's manager Pooja Dadlani. According to a E-Times report, Pooja has been issued a summon in the extortion investigation attached to the on-going drugs raid case. She may also be issued a summon by the vigilance team at the Narcotics Control Bureau. Pooja Dadlani has reportedly sought more time from the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).Pooja Dadlani’s name cropped up in the probe after a special investigation unit (SIT) of the Mumbai Police reportedly found CCTV evidence of Pooja meeting KP Gosavi and Sam D'souza in Lower Parel. A report on India Today claimed that the team probing allegations of 'extortion' in the cruise drug case involving Shah Rukh Khan's son, Aryan Khan, are now likely to register a case against Gosavi and will likely call in Dadlani to record her statement.

Pooja Dadlani has been Shah Rukh Khan’s manager since 2012. She attended every court hearing of the drugs case involving Aryan Khan. While the star son was lodged at Arthur Road jail, Pooja was seen at the court hearings with the lawyers. Aryan Khan was among 8 persons who were arrested on October 3 after a team led by NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede raided the Cordelia cruise ship in Mumbai. During the operation that was carried out on the basis of specific information, the NCB officers seized 13 grams of Cocaine, 5 grams of Mephedrone, 21 grams of Charas, 22 pills of Ecstasy and Rs.1,33,000. They have been charged under Sections 8(c) r/w 20(b), 27, 28, 29 and 35 of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. Mumbai’s Esplanade Court initially remanded them to NCB custody until October 4 and then till October 7. While they were sent to judicial custody for 14 days thereafter, a metropolitan magistrate’s court in Mumbai denied bail to Aryan Khan and co-accused Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha on October 8. In another setback for them, Judge VV Patil of the special NDPS court rejected their bail pleas on October 20. Finally, they were granted bail by the single-judge bench of the Bombay HC on October 28.