Drug Probe
Comedian Bharti Singh, husband taken by NCB for questioning
Mumbai/IBNS: Comedian Bharti Singh's house was searched by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Saturday and she along with her husband Harsh Limbachiyaa have been taken for questioning by the agency, said media reports.
Media reports said Bharti Singh and her husband have been accused of consuming banned drugs.
A "small quantity of cannabis" was recovered by NCB during a search of their Mumbai residence this morning, said an NDTV report.
This raid is the latest in the series of searches conducted by NCB at residences of big names associated with Bollywood.
Earlier this month actor Arjun Rampal and his partner Gabriella Demetriades were summoned for questioning at the NCB office. While Rampal was questioned for a total of six hours, Demetriades was questioned for over two days for a total of 12 hours. Before that, their home was searched by NCB.
While leaving the NCB office post the questioning, Rampal said the substances found in his house were prescribed medicine and the prescription had been handed over to the probe agency. He said he was fully cooperating with the anti-drug probe agency and he had nothing to do with drugs.
Gabriella Demetriades's brother Agisialos Demetriades, who is a South African national, has been arrested twice in connection with alleged drug links, media reports said, adding that he is currently in the agency's custody.
The probe agency also arrested an Australian architect Paul Bartel, who was named as a drug supplier by Agisialos Demetriades while questioning, said reports.
However, Bartel was releasedon bail last Thursday after a special court ruled there was no substantial evidence of wrongdoing on his part.
Film producer Firoz Nadiadwala's wife Shabana Saeed was arrested on Monday after sleuths allegedly recovered 10 grams of marijuana at Nadiadwala residence in Mumbai's Juhu during a raid.
The probe agency had arrested drug peddler Wahid Abdul Kadir Shaikh in Andheri days ago.
The NCB said Saeed's name emerged while tracking Shaikh's clients. She was later released on bail.
Bollywood actors Deepika Padukone, Sara Ali Khan, Rakulpreet Singh and Shraddha Kapoor have been interrogated by NCB in the past two months.
The NCB deepened its probe into alleged consumption and possession of drugs by the people associated with Bollywood after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officially communicated to the anti-drug probe agency several chats related to drug consumption, procurement, usage and transportation that surfaced while investigating actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death.
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