Actor Arjun Rampal’s sister Komal Rampal has been summoned by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) for questioning in a drugs-associated case in which he has also been questioned.
The summons was issued inside days of Komal Rampal expressing her inability to seem prior to the investigation agency citing ill well being.
The NCB had mentioned it would examine her response because she did not seek any additional date to seem.
Ms Rampal was known as by the NCB right after her brother reportedly told the agency officials that a single of the two banned medicines discovered in his Mumbai dwelling in the course of a raid in November was for his sister.
Arjun Rampal, who has been questioned twice for more than six hours each and every time, has presented a prescription for the medicines banned below the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. The NCB is checking the prescription’s authenticity.
The anti-drugs agency has also summoned Mumbai’s renowned betel nut seller Muchhad Paanwala, whose name appeared in the course of the questioning of Karan Sajnani, a British national arrested on Saturday with two other folks for allegedly supplying imported strains of marijuana in the city, an official mentioned.
Over 200 kg of ganja, such as imported strains like ‘OG Kush’ (a strain of cannabis indica), and curated marijuana, some of which had been sourced from the United States, have been recovered in the NCB action.
“A team of NCB’s Mumbai unit led by zonal director Sameer Wankhede conducted a raid in Bandra (West) and seized ganja from a courier. It then conducted searches in Khar (West) and recovered a huge stash of imported strains of marijuana from Karan Sajnani,” he mentioned.
According to the NCB, Karan Sajnani packed the contraband in the type of pre-rolled cigarettes and marketed it to higher-finish consumers in Mumbai and other states, such as Bollywood celebrities. The activity was allegedly financed by Rahila Furniturewala, who was also arrested.
The raids are element of a bigger probe into allegations of a film business-drug cartel nexus that emerged in the investigations into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June final year.