The Kherwadi police have booked three people for allegedly extorting money and other favours from the principal of a prestigious school in Bandra East. The three were allegedly in possession of a private video of the principal, who also happens to be a priest.A complaint was filed in this regard by the school’s management last week, said an official from the Kherwadi police. According to the FIR, the three accused include a reporter with a regional newspaper, a senior teacher from the school and a temporary teacher.“The video in question has been in the possession of the three accused for the past one year. According to the complainant, they used it to extort money from him. The principal has also said that one of them blackmailed him into giving out question papers and refer students from the school to one of the two teachers accused in the case to him for tuitions,” said the official.This video had been the basis of an FIR lodged last month, wherein the girl in the video has accused the principal of raping her for six years. “We have booked the principal under Protection of Children against Sexual Offences (POCSO) and a separate enquiry is underway in the matter. However, we have registered this case against the three accused on the basis on the school’s internal enquiry wherein the principal had submitted WhatsApp chats with the accused as evidence. We will do a thorough investigation in both cases,” said senior Police Inspector Rajendra Patil of Kherwadi police station. He said that no arrests had been made yet in either of the cases.In the complaint made by the school management, the principal has claimed that the girl in question was forced by the three accused to film her and the principal in such a way that it seemed like he was forcing himself upon her.When contacted, one of the accused alleged that the police did not register an FIR in the case when they first approached them a year ago. “We have submitted several written complaints of the incident to the police for the past several months,” the accused said.The school's representatives, meanwhile, reiterated that the principal has been suspended until the police investigate the charges against him.