Comic Bharti Singh and her husband accused by the NCB of taking medication (File)
Mumbai:
Comic Bharti Singh’s Mumbai residence is being raided by the Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB), in keeping with a report by information company ANI on Saturday morning. Sources throughout the company stated Ms Singh and her husband have been accused of consuming banned substances.
The raids come amid an increasing probe – which started with inquiries into the dying of actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June – into alleged drug use by members of the leisure trade.
Earlier this month actor Arjun Rampal’s house was searched, and each he and his girlfriend, Gabriella Demetriades, have been summoned for questioning.
Ms Demetriades was questioned over two days (for a complete of 12 hours) whereas Mr Rampal was questioned for six hours final week. As he was leaving the company’s workplace in south Mumbai, he clarified that the substances found by the NCB at his residence have been a part of a prescription.
“I’m totally cooperating with the investigation. I’ve nothing to do with medication. The drugs discovered at my residence was prescribed. The prescription has been discovered and handed over,” he stated.
The NCB had earlier also arrested Paul Bartel, an Australian architect whose title emerged as an alleged provider after the questioning of Agisialos Demetriades – a South African nationwide who’s Ms Demetriades’s brother and is presently within the company’s custody.
Mr Bartel was granted bail on Thursday. In keeping with information company PTI, the particular courtroom that granted him reduction noticed there was no “substantial materials” to show wrongdoing on his half.
Previous to that the NCB had additionally summoned movie producer Firoz Nadiadwala. A day earlier his spouse, Shabana Saeed, was arrested after investigators allegedly found 10 grams of marijuana at their house in Mumbai’s Juhu throughout a raid. Ms Saeed has since been launched on bail.
The Nadiadwala residence had been searched following the arrest of drug peddler Wahid Abdul Kadir Shaikh in Andheri a couple of days earlier than that. Because the company tracked Shaikh’s shoppers, hyperlinks to Ms Saeed, who allegedly bought 10 grams of the contraband from him, emerged, the NCB stated.
Over the previous few months prime Bollywood actors Deepika Padukone, Sara Ali Khan, Rakulpreet Singh and Shraddha Kapoor have all been questioned by the NCB. The company has stated that is a part of its try and unravel a community of provide of medication to celebrities.
The medication angle in Sushant Rajput’s dying was flagged after texts in regards to the buy of banned substances have been allegedly discovered on his girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty’s cellphone.
Ms Chakraborty, her brother Showik, two of Sushant Singh Rajput’s workers and some others have been arrested for allegedly arranging medication for the 34-year-old actor.
After almost a month in jail, Ms Chakraborty, who can also be an actor, was released on bail last month.
The allegations have cut up the movie fraternity, with one part hitting out on the vilification of the trade. Many well-known actors and filmmakers have been trolled over the allegations.
“I will be a liar if I say that this downside doesn’t exist in our trade. It exists, identical to each trade. However each particular person in each occupation shouldn’t be concerned in such issues. That is inconceivable,” actor Akshay Kumar stated in October.
With enter from ANI, PTI
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