Mumbai: The Narcotics Control Bureau’s Special Investigation Team, headed by IPS officer Sanjay Kumar Singh, summoned actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan and other accused in the cruise drugs bust case on Sunday. While Aryan failed to appear before the investigators citing “slight fever”, his friend Arbaaz Merchant and co-accused Achit Kumar arrived at the NCB office and were quizzed for several hours. Sources said Aryan is expected to appear before the SIT in a day or two.

“We are issuing summons to all the accused and people concerned in the six drug cases that are now being probed by the SIT,” said an NCB officer. The SIT was formed on Friday and arrived in Mumbai the next day.

Merchant came in the morning to give his statement, while Kumar arrived in the afternoon.

ANI reported that Prabhakar Sail, a witness who claimed that a deal of Rs 18 crore was made for Aryan’s release, has been summoned by the NCB’s vigilance team on Monday. Earlier, he had failed to appear before the team on October 30, an official said.

The cruise liner drug case, actor Armaan Kohli’s case, the case involving minister Nawab Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan, and three charas and mephedrone cases, which were being supervised by Mumbai NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede, were transferred to the Singh-led SIT.

Meanwhile, Sunil Patil, whom former Mumbai BJP youth wing chief Mohit Bharatiya has accused of being the mastermind of the cruise drugs episode, appeared before the Mumbai Police's SIT on Sunday to record his statement, an official said. Patil reached Azad Maidan police station in a private cab and the SIT office in south Mumbai around 6.15 pm, he said.

ACP Milind Khetle, who heads the police’s SIT set up to probe allegations of extortion against NCB officials in connection with the cruise drug bust, will record Patil’s statement. It has already recorded the statement of NCB’s independent witness Prabhakar Sail, the official said.