In the latest development of the Bollywood drug investigation, sources informed the Republic Media Network that NCB conducted multiple raids in Mumbai on Friday, while Kshitij Ravi Prasad and Anubhav Chopra, associated with Dharma, were being questioned by the agency.
OCN teams carried out raids at six different locations in Andheri and Versova while Kshitij Ravi Prasad and Anubhav Chopra were questioned. Kshitij Prasad remains in the custody of the NCB as an agency and, according to leading sources, has given the names of 5 Bollywood celebrities and 2 producers in relation to the drugs angle.
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Anubhav Chopra, an associate at Dharma Productions, did not receive a clean note from the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and will be summoned once again on Saturday, sources told Republic TV after his questioning ended after midnight on Saturday. Saturday.
Anubhav Chopra was summoned by the agency after his Dharma co-worker Kshitij Ravi Prasad was detained following raids on his Versova residence, where drugs were seized.
Kshitij Ravi Prasad has been named by an alleged street vendor Ankush Arneja, as well as actor Rakul Preet Singh in his confession to the agency. The latter named him for supplying drugs to his close associates in Bollywood.
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Rakul Preet Admits Kshitij Supplied Medications Associated With Dharma
Actress Rakul Preet Singh, on her admission to the Bureau of Narcotics Control (NCB) on Friday in Bollywood’s ongoing drug investigation, named four lead actors and Kahitij in her statement, sources reported to Republic TV. Rakul Preet has denied using drugs but has admitted that Kshitij Ravi Prasad was involved in some activities, the sources added.
Rakul has also taken the name Kshitij as the person who supplied drugs to some of his close associates. Rakul has also given NCB various details, after which NCB’s KPS Malhotra questioned Kshitij at NCB’s Mumbai zonal office. Furthermore, Rakul Preet has claimed that Kshitij Prasad had approached her to work as her conduit, “sources reported. She also confessed that Rhea Chakraborty would receive drugs at her home and that the contraband seized from her residence was from Rhea, the sources said. sources.
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Drugs seized from Kshitij’s residence
Kshitij Ravi Prasad was picked up from his Versova residence on Friday after the agency conducted raids there. Marijuana has been seized from the Kshitij site during searches. Kshitij had landed just hours earlier in Mumbai from Delhi, where he was on Thursday when the summons was issued. His home was also raided by agency officials on Thursday. The alleged street vendor Ankush Arneja had confessed to the agency many times that Kshitij bought drugs from him.
Karan Johar, meanwhile, had distanced himself and Dharma Productions from Kshitij and Anubhav, claiming that they were not full-time employees, that he did not know them personally, and that he was not concerned about what they did on his personal time. He also refuted drug use himself.
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