Sushant case LIVE: NCB takes Kshitij Prasad into custody in another drug case

NCB had registered a case on the request of the ED after some alleged chats discussing drugs came to fore in August.

New Delhi: Days after remaining "untraceable", Deepika Padukone's former manager Karishma Prakash appeared for questioning before the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Wednesday in connection with a drugs case linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death.

She was summoned for questioning after NCB found some hashish and CBD oil from her premises during the raids conducted last month.

The NCB had earlier quizzed her in September, along with Deepika, Shraddha Kapoor and Sara Ali Khan in connection with a drugs case in the Sushant death probe.

The drug enforcement agency had registered a case on the request of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) after some alleged chats discussing drugs came to fore in August.

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05 November 2020

20:47 PM

A special NDPS court on Wednesday allowed the NCB to take Prasad's custody in connection with the case in which four gm cocaine was recovered from Nigerian national Uka Emeka in suburban Andheri last month, the official said. Besides Prasad, the NCB has also taken into custody African national Agilslaos Demtriades in the same case, he said.

Demetriades, a close relative of a Bollywood celebrity, was arrested last month from Lonavla in neighbouring Pune district.

20:46 PM

Prasad was earlier arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in connection with a drugs case related to actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death.

20:45 PM

The NCB has taken Kshitij Prasad, former executive producer of Dharmatic Entertainment, into custody in another case involving recovery of cocaine from a Nigerian national in Mumbai, an official said on Thursday, reports PTI.

14:26 PM

The NCB has arrested a 30-year-old man who was allegedly supplying drugs to people connected with the film and TV industry, an official said on Thursday, PTI reports.

14:26 PM

Rhea's complaint was based on "unfounded allegations, unsubstantiated facts, speculations and was a counterblast" to the abetment of suicide case filed against her by their father K K Singh in Bihar, the sisters said in a rejoinder in the HC.

14:25 PM

Sushant Singh Rajput's sisters Priyanka Singh and Meetu Singh on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that the complaint lodged against them by Rhea Chakraborty for allegedly fabricating a medical prescription was an attempt to take revenge, reports PTI.

14:24 PM

Karishma Prakash resigned on October 21 from  KWAN. The company said that she now has "nothing" to do with KWAN or with any of the artists that the agency represents, including Deepika.

14:21 PM

Karishma Prakash was asked by a Mumbai court to appear before the NCB. She had applied for anticipatory bail on Sunday, after which the special court gave her interim relief from arrest till November 7.