09 November,2020 12:48 PM IST | Mumbai | Faizan Khan
Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal
Carrying forward its crackdown on the Bollywood-drug mafia links, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Monday searched the Mumbai residence of actor Arjun Rampal and summoned him and his partner Gabriella Demetriades to appear before the agency on November 11.
During the raids, the NCB officials recovered some tablets that are banned under the NDPS Act from Arjun Rampal's residence. They have seized mobile phones, laptops, pen drive and some documents from the actor's house. According to sources, the raids were conducted for more than 8 hours and the officials brought the actor's driver to the NCB office, however, he was allowed to leave after a while.
NCB deputy director, KPS Malhotra, confirmed that summons have been issued to Arjun Rampal and electronic gadgets have been seized from his residence.
In October, model and designer Gabriella Demetriade's brother Agisilaos Demetriades was arrested by NCB for drug peddling.
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An NCB team had raided a resort in Lonavala where Agisilaos, 30, was staying. He was found in possession of marijuana and alprazolam, a banned drug. "He is part of a major drug syndicate in Bollywood. During our probe we found that he was in touch of various drug peddlers arrested in the case," NCB officials had said.
On Sunday, the NCB also conducted raids at the home of well-known film producer Firoz A. Nadiadwala and seized drugs worth around Rs 3.59 lakh.
The NCB had also arrested Nadiadwala's wife Shabana Saeed, besides three other drug peddlers in the operation conducted at different places in the city and in Thane during the day.
It seized 717.1 gms ganja, 74.1 gms charas and 95.1 gms MD (commercial quantity), worth Rs.3.59 lakh from Nadiadwala's home in Juhu and another location.
Besides another 10 gms of ganja was recovered from another accused Wahid A. Kadir Shaikh, alias Sultan.
The operation is part of the ongoing investigations over the past three months to unravel the nexus between Bollywood and the drugs mafia in the country's film capital.
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