Delhi Police on Wednesday accused a Mumbai-based businessman of making extortion bids against Anoushka Shankar, daughter of sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, after obtaining her private photographs by hacking her e-mail accounts.

In the chargesheet filed in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja, Special Cell of the Delhi police sought prosecution of Junaid Khan for offences of extortion under the IPC and hacking the emails account under the Information Technology Act.

"During inquiry, it was revealed the alleged person had sent email to Anoushka firstly from Dubai in UAE and then from Mumbai by using Airtel mobile number, which was a prepaid connection and subscribed by Khan," the police alleged.

According to the police, Khan, arrested from Mumbai on September 14, had allegedly used Tata broadband internet connection to send threatening emails to Anoushka between May 11 and September 14 and demanded USD 1,22,000 in lieu of her private photographs obtained by hacking her emails.

The police, which recently got letters rogatory issued from the court to the US authorities seeking assistance to help in collection of evidence from the Google Inc in the case, submitted they were awaiting a response from them.

The forensic reports on the seized mobile and laptop of Khan were also awaited, the police said in the chargesheet put up for consideration of the court on November 13.

The police also said they had obtained sanction from the central government for trying Khan as the offence was committed outside the country.