NCB likely to summon actors Sara Ali Khan, Rakul Preet Singh and a designer in drugs case

MUMBAI: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), probing the drug case linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, is likely to summon actors Sara Ali Khan and Rakul Preet Singh, and designer Simone Khambatta for questioning this week after their names surfaced in actor Rhea Chakraborty’s interrogations.
“There has been an issue over whether the names of Sara, Simone and Rakul surfaced during the investigations. The answer to that is ‘Yes’. And on whether the NCB has prepared a list of 25 Bollywood personalities, the answer is ‘No’,’’ said NCB deputy director K P S Malhotra.
Rhea, during her custodial interrogation, had said Khan, Singh and Khambatta reportedly took drugs with Rajput. An NDPS lawyer, however, said that only on the basis of her statement, the NCB cannot initiate action unless they have corroborative evidence that will stand the scrutiny of law.
The NCB on Monday arrested Suryadeep Malhotra (23), a close friend of Rajput.
Officials seize drug supplier’s high-end car
The management graduate from Worli used to drop by Rajput’s house and allegedly smoke marijuana and also arranged it for the actor at the behest of Rhea and her brother Showik, said officials. Malhotra will be produced before the court on Tuesday.
The NCB has recovered Rs 15 lakh from Goa resident Chris Costa who was arrested on Sunday for alleged drug peddling.
Of the six arrested following raids in Mumbai and Gujarat, Karamjeet Anand alias KJ’s, Dwayne Fernandes and Ankush Arneja were produced before court through videoconferencing on Monday and remanded to NCB custody till September 16. Sanket Patel, who worked as a delivery boy for Anand, was granted bail, while auto driver Sandeep Gupta and Aftab Fateh Ansari were sent to judicial custody till September
23. The NCB seized Anand’s high-end luxury car, which was used to ferry drugs to his “Bollywood clients and celebrities”.