‘No case the place Bollywood celebrities had been referred to as in for questioning taken to their logical conclusion’
The arrest and bail to Aryan Khan in a medication case and subsequent allegations on the functioning of the Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB), particularly its zonal director Sameer Wankhede, have raised questions on the previous instances of the company.
A Nationalist Congress Social gathering (NCP) leader had pointed out that not one of the high-profile instances, the place Bollywood celebrities had been referred to as in for questioning, have been taken to their logical conclusion. As an alternative all of them are both pending investigation or the trial has not but begun but.
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In 2020, the NCB underneath Mr. Wankhede stepped in to investigate the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput and arrested his girlfriend and actor Rhea Chakraborty for allegedly supplying medication to him primarily based on her WhatsApp chats. Within the following months, 33 people together with the actor had been arrested by the NCB.
A 12 months later, a majority of the 33 arrested together with Ms. Chakraborty and her brother Showik have been granted bail whereas six others stay imprisoned. The NCB filed an 11,700-page chargesheet in March 2021 however the trial is but to start.
After the arrest of Ms. Chakraborty, high actors together with Deepika Padukone, Sara Ali Khan, Shraddha Kapoor, Arjun Rampal and Rakul Preet Singh had been questioned by the NCB which claimed that it was cracking down on the drug nexus in Bollywood.
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The company seized the cellphones of the actors and even despatched them for forensic investigation. No affirmation on whether or not any report has been obtained was made by the company. All of the actors denied consuming medication and no arrests had been made within the case. A 12 months later, the case is at a standstill as not even a chargesheet has been filed by the NCB.
Agisilaos Demetriades, brother of actor Arjun Rampal’s companion, was arrested in October 2020 over alleged possession of medication. He too was granted bail in December 2020. A 12 months later, in September 2021, he was once more arrested in Goa by the NCB in relation to the case involving seizure of a small amount of cannabis and contraband.
In August 2021, actor Armaan Kohli’s home was raided by the NCB, a day after the arrest of drug peddler Ajay Raju Singh. Mr. Kohli was questioned and arrested. In keeping with the officers, a small quantity of medication was present in his residence. In October 2021, his bail plea was rejected by the particular NDPS court docket.
