Mumbai Police, on Monday, have provided protection to Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) witness Prabhakar Sail who alleged a payoff between the agency and Shah Rukh Khan’s manager in the on-going drugs-on-cruise case.

Sail, on Sunday made sensational claims about an alleged payoff to the extent of Rs 25 crore, Rs 8 crore was supposed to be kept aside for NCB Mumbai’s zonal head Sameer Wankhede. A day later, he met a Mumbai Police official seeking protection.