THE team of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai unit led by Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede will not investigate six cases including the drugs on cruise matter involving actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan, sources said.

According to sources, the Mumbai NCB team under Wankhede will also not be probing the case against Sameer Khan, son-in-law of Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik.

Speaking to ANI, NCB Deputy Director South-Western Region General Mutha Ashok Jain said, “It was an administrative decision,” Jain said.

Meanwhile, Wankhede said that he has not been removed from the investigation and it was his writ petition in court that the matter be probed by a central agency.

“I have not been removed from the investigation. It was my writ petition in court that the matter be probed by a central agency. So Aryan case and Sameer Khan case are being probed by Delhi NCB’s SIT. It is in coordination between NCB teams of Delhi and Mumbai,” he told ANI.

The team of Delhi NCB is arriving in Mumbai on Saturday.

Commenting on the development, Nawab Malik said that this is just the beginning.

“Sameer Wankhede has been removed from 5 cases including the Aryan Khan case. There are 26 cases in all that need to be probed. This is just the beginning... a lot more has to be done to clean this system and we will do it,” the Maharashtra Minister tweeted.

AS DIRECTED by the Bombay High Court, Aryan Khan, Munmun Dhamecha and Arbaaz Merchant on Friday visited the NCB to mark their weekly 3-hour attendance.

The trio arrived separately and were whisked off inside the NCB office where top officials were also present.

This was Aryan Khan’s first foray into public view, a week since he got bail on October 29, but could manage to walk out of Arthur Road Central Jail only on October 30 -- after spending 29 nights away from his home.

While granting conditional bail to the trio, the Bombay High Court had stipulated, among several other things, that they must visit the

NCB office every Friday between 11 am- 2 pm, deposit their passports and not leave Mumbai or India without prior permission.

The young trio was among the earliest detained with five other accused after the NCB’s sensational raid on the luxury ship Cordelia Cruise on October 2, and all eight were arrested on October 3.

In the subsequent investigations into the alleged cruise rave party, the NCB arrested 12 more, including a couple of foreign nationals, and a majority are now out on bail.

Meanwhile, the Pune court on Friday sent Kiran Gosavi, an independent witness in the NCB cruise raid case and an accused in a cheating case registered with Faraskhana police station of Pune, to police custody till November 8.