Mumbai: In a important embarrassment, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has suspended two officials from their Mumbai Zonal Unit for alleged suspicious function which enabled two accused get relief in the ongoing Bollywood-drugs mafia investigations, official sources mentioned right here on Thursday.
The function of the two investigating officials — whose identities are not disclosed — came below a cloud just after two accused Harsh Limbachiya and Karishma Prakash got bail and interim bail, respectively, in November, an official requesting anonymity told IANS.
Limbachiya is the husband of higher-profile tv character Bharti Singh even though Karishma Prakash is the manager of major Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone.
Both — Limbachiya and Karishma Prakash — had their premises raided by NCB teams final month and specific quantities of drugs recovered in the actions.
While Bharti and Limbachiya have been arrested and later got bail, Karishma Prakash had ignored NCB summons to join the probe and later secured an interim bail — and in each the developments, the alleged function of the two IOs is now below the scanner.
The NCB move follows the preliminary report of an internal probe ordered by the Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede, and the suspensions precede a complete departmental enquiry in which the attainable involvement of some other folks, such as lawyers, could also come up, indicated the official.