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 was named after 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. Sources informed Republic TV that Kshtij Prasad’s statement will be recorded by the NCB and that she has given the agency various names during questioning.
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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 KPS Malhotra questioned Kshitij at NCB’s zonal office in Mumbai. 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.
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Karan Johar distances himself; Issues statement denying use of narcotics.
However, Karan Johar has claimed that he does not know Kshitij Prasad or Anubhav Chopra personally, is in his first reply after they were picked up by NCB, and has downplayed his association with Dharma Productions.
“I would like to further note that Kshitij Prasad and Anubhav Chopra – I do not know these people personally and neither of these two people are ‘helpers’ or ‘close helpers’. Neither I nor Dharma Productions can be held responsible for what the people do in their personal lives. These accusations do not belong to Dharma Productions “, Statement by Karan Johar read.
“I would also like to point out that Anubhav Chopra is not an employee of Dharma Productions. He was briefly associated with us for only two months as a second assistant director of a film, between November 2011 and January 2012 and as an assistant director of the short film in January 2013. Since then, he has never been associated with the Dharma, “the statement read.
“Mr. Kshitij Ravi Prasad joined Dharmatic in November 2019 as one of the contract executive producers for a project that ultimately did not materialize.”
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