The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Monday conducted raids at the premises of actor Arjun Rampal in Mumbai, news agency ANI reported.
The NCB has not said anything about the raids yet. More details are awaited.
This comes a day after film producer Firoz Nadiawala’s house was raided by the bureau on Sunday and his wife Shabana Saeed was arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) act. The producer was also summoned by the agency.
Earlier, the NCB had arrested Agisilaos Demetriades, brother of Rampal’s girlfriend Gabriella. Reports suggest Agisilaos was a part of a drug syndicate linked to the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
NCB officers said Agisilaos was in constant touch with many drug peddlers who supplied drugs to Rhea Chakraborty, her brother Showik and others arrested in Rajput’s death case. Both Rhea and Showik were also arrested by the bureau earlier.
Rhea was given bail by the Bombay High Court on October 7 while Showik still continues to remain in custody.
The Narcotics Control Bureau summoned both Deepika Padukone and her manager, Karishma Prakash last month after their alleged drug chats from 2017 came to the limelight. After her interrogation with the agency, the ‘Bajirao Mastani’ actress resumed her working schedule for her upcoming movie with Shakun Batra.
Also, based on a report of Indian Express, earlier today, the NCB has raided Karishma’s Versova residence and recovered 1.7 grams of charas and at least 2 bottles of CBD oil. Prakash has earlier been interrogated by the NCB in connection with FIR registered in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case.
An NCB official told the publication, “Prakash’s name cropped up during the questioning of one of the paddlers arrested by us in the case in which we are looking to bust drug networks around Bollywood, Based on the information, we raided her residence today. We found 1.7 grams of charas and at least two bottles of CBD oil.”
Source: Hindustan Times
