Actor Deepika Padukone’s manager Karishma Prakash, in whose Versova residence the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) conducted a raid on Tuesday and seized 1.7 gm charas, did not appear before the agency on Wednesday.
The NCB had issued a summons to Prakash to appear before them and will wait for her to provide an explanation on the seizure of charas and at least two bottles of CBD oil from her residence.
An official said, “Prakash did not appear before us today (Wednesday). We will wait for her to join the investigation.”
Sources said Prakash was consulting her lawyers to decide on further course of action. Prakash was summoned in connection with the FIR linked to the use of narcotics in Bollywood.
Prakash, an employee of Kwan talent management company, was earlier questioned after the NCB said it found her to be part of a WhatsApp group with Padukone and Jaya Saha, also a Kwan employee, where narcotics were discussed. Padukone told the agency that they were not talking about narcotics but about cigarettes.
In the same case, the NCB arrested one more person, identified as Nikhil Saldanha (30), for allegedly procuring narcotics from a peddler arrested earlier in the case. This is the 25th arrest in the case (Indian Express).
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After SSR death Bollywood wallahs are abuzz with daily news of who’s who being interrogated by NCB. We know the sinister way the hierarchy makes starlings do certain acts or things including drug pushing to achieve their dream. The gullible filmgoers are aiding a money-laundering machine by following these despots who peddle stories where Hindus are made to be villains a Muslim is always a victim. Whilst it is possible to get a bad apple in any community, it is about time the real dons were exposed and the roots of the corruption made public hence more such arrests or inquiries better for the nation