Mumbai Drug Bust LIVE Updates: SRK's manager at NCB office; lawyers claim Ananya, Aryan's chats misinterpreted

Shah Rukh Khan's manager Pooja Dadlani was summoned by the NCB today (October 23). She left the agency's office after being interrogated for over an hour.

Shah Rukh Khan's manager Pooja Dadlani was summoned by the Narcotics Control Bureau on Saturday morning. She was spotted by the media persons stationed outside the NCB office.

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Shah Rukh Khan's manager Pooja Dadlani reaches Mumbai NCB office for interrogation in a drugs related case.

-- inputs by Atul Singh

So far, the anti-drugs agency has arrested as many as 20 people in connection with the case of seizure of banned drugs aboard a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast earlier this month.

As per the NCB sources, Ananya denied the allegation of supplying drugs to Aryan Khan, who is an accused in the case, and said that she has never consumed the drugs. "The chats recovered from Aryan Khan's mobile phone reveal that in the year 2018-19, she helped supply drugs to Aryan thrice by providing him the numbers of drug dealers," NCB sources told ANI. "Ananya denied the supply related talks in the chat conversation and told the NCB officials that she has never consumed or supplied the drugs," they added.

Bollywood actor Ananya Panday appeared before the Narcotics Control Bureau in Mumbai for the second straight day on Friday and was questioned for nearly four hours in connection with her alleged WhatsApp chats with Aryan Khan, son of superstar Shah Rukh Khan, arrested in a drugs case. Ananya Panday has been again called by the NCB on Monday. 

Her actor-father Chunky Panday accompanied her to the NCB office as he had done on Thursday when she was questioned for the first time over chats linked to the case which relates to alleged seizure of banned drugs from a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast early this month.

Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, in his plea in the Bombay High Court seeking bail, has said the NCB was "misinterpreting" his WhatsApp chats to implicate him in the case of seizure of banned drugs aboard a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast earlier this month. Aryan Khan, currently in jail, on Wednesday moved the HC after a special court rejected his application for bail. The HC will hear his bail plea on October 26.

The 23-year-old claimed no contraband was recovered from him after the NCB raided the ship and maintained he has no connection with any of the other accused in the case except Arbaaz Merchant and Aachit Kumar.