Top Bollywood actors including Deepika Padukone, Rakul Preet, and designer Simone Khambatta, were summoned by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) after their names were revealed by former Sushant Singh Rajput talent manager Jaya Saha. , during the investigation into the angle of drugs in the case of the actor’s death. .
The NCB has submitted two FIRs: one (15/20) names Deepika, Rakul Preet and Simone, related to Sushant’s death drug investigation and the other (16/20) names Shraddha Kapoor and Sara Ali Khan in relation with the drug cartel’s ties to the Bollywood industry and its stars.
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Both 20/15 and 20/16 are sections in the FIR on Sushant’s death and Bollywood actors will be questioned in these sections.
Along with the three Bollywood actors, Jaya Saha also named KWAN talent manager Karishma Prakash on her admission to NCB, sources said.
Deepika Padukone, Simone, Rakul Preet will be questioned at NCB’s guesthouse, Colaba, while Sara Ali Khan and Shraddha Kapoor will be questioned at NCB Zonal office.
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Deepika Padukone will be at NCB on Friday
Deepika Padukone was called up on Friday. According to sources, she will meet with her legal team and expects to depart Goa for Mumbai on a chartered flight at 12:30 pm. On Thursday, the central anti-drug agency spoke with Deepika Padukone by phone and was briefed on the development, the sources said. Meanwhile, Rakul Preet has claimed that he has not received the subpoena, but that it has been rebutted by the NCB.
Republic Media Network sources had reported that Deepika Padukone sought legal advice via video conference with a 12-member team in Mumbai after she was summoned by the NCB. The sources added that Ranveer Singh was also on video conference together with Deepika’s lawyers.
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Deepika Padukone’s name comes up in drug talks; Sara and Shraddha summoned
Deepika Padukone’s name came up in one of the WhatsApp chats where the actor allegedly asks a ‘K’ for ‘maal, hash’ who was later confirmed as his manager, Karishma Prakash. The chats accessed are from October 2017.
After that, another series of conversations emerged in which Jaya Saha is discussing supplying drugs to another pair of actors, ‘S’ and ‘N’, of which ‘S’ turned out to be Shraddha Kapoor, according to sources. Meanwhile, Sara’s questioning comes after NCB confirmed that her name had come up in the questioning of the Rhea Chakraborty case.
NCB is questioning talent manager Jaya Saha, who has become a ‘capo’, sources confirmed to Republic, after sensational revelations came to light about his activities and the high-profile WhatsApp groups he operated and who they involved copious conversations about drugs. You can be arrested by the NCB.
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