Updated: September 14, 2020 9:26:58 pm
Actors Kannada Ragini Dwivedi and Sanjjana Galrani. (File photo)
A Bengaluru court referred Kannada actress Ragini Dwivedi to judicial custody until Sept. 28 in the drug case, said Sandeep Patil, deputy commissioner of Police (Crime). According to Patil, Ragini You will be transferred to the central Parappana Agrahara prison in the city.
Meanwhile, the police custody of the actress Sanjjanaa galrani it has been extended for the next three days.
Other defendants in the case, namely Prashanth Ranka, Loum Pepper Samba, Rahul Thonse and Niyaz have also been taken into judicial custody and will be sent to the central prison of Parappana Agrahara, while the police custody of Viren Khanna and Ravi Shankar will be extended until September. 16 by the court.
Ragini and Sanjjanaa were arrested by the Bengaluru Central Crime Branch (CCB) police in connection with a drug trafficking case involving film actors from Kannada.
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According to police sources, the central prison officials have tightened security inside the Parappana Agrahara central prison. Ragini will be housed in a special dedicated block in the prison in a separate cell.
Before presenting Ragini and Sanjjanaa in court, CCB officials had taken them to the KC General hospital in Malleshwaram for general medical examinations and a Covid-19 test. Police sources said that both have been certified healthy by doctors.
Recently, filmmaker and journalist Indrajit Lankesh, while giving his statement to the CCB on the Kannada film industry drug scandal, claimed that at least 15 people from the industry were involved in drug trafficking.
The CCB intensified its investigation into a drug trade in Bengaluru after the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested three people from the city, who allegedly supplied drugs to singers and actors in the Kannada film industry, also known as “Sandalwood”.
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