Mumbai:
Actor Vivek Oberoi, a vocal supporter of the BJP who starred as Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an adulatory biopic, should be investigated for attainable hyperlinks to the drug abuse scandal being probed by the Narcotics Management Bureau or NCB, Maharashtra House Minister Anil Deshmukh mentioned on Friday.
Mr Deshmukh’s feedback got here after a Congress get together delegation met him with the demand following a raid at Mr Oberoi’s residence by the Bengaluru Police on Thursday in reference to the medication scandal involving the Kannada movie business.
The police have been on the lookout for Vivek Oberoi’s spouse Priyanka Alva’s brother Aditya who has been evading arrest after being named as within the medication probe by the Central Crime Department of the Bengaluru Police.
Priyanka Alva, the daughter of former Karnataka minister Jeevaraj Alva and Nandini Alva, has been served a discover by the Bengaluru Central Crime Department as effectively, in accordance with information company ANI.
Maharashtra House Minister Anil Deshmukh has mentioned the Narcotic Management Bureau or NCB ought to probe Vivek Oberoi within the separate drug case involving members of the Hindi movie business in Mumbai often known as Bollywood.
“If the NCB doesn’t probe it, then we’ll ask the Mumbai Police to probe it,” Mr Deshmukh mentioned.