Drugs probe NCB may summon Deepika Padukone if needed

    Mumbai, Sep 22 (PTI) The Narcotics Control Bureau
(NCB), probing the alleged Bollywood-drug nexus, might summon
actress Deepika Padukone if needed, an official said on
Tuesday.
    NCB sources said some WhatsApp conversations
purportedly discussing drugs are on the radar of the agency.
    Some of these chats were purportedly between
Padukone's manager Karishma Prakash and one "D", they said.
    The official said the NCB might also summon actors
Rakul Preet Singh and Sara Ali Khan, and designer Simone
Khambatta this week.
    The federal anti-drugs agency has already summoned
Karishma Prakash and KWAN talent management agency's CEO Dhurv
Chitgopekar in connection with its probe.
    Both of them will be questioned by the NCB this
afternoon, he said.
    "The NCB will first question Karishma Prakash and
might summon actor Deepika Padukone if needed," the official
said.
    During the NCB's investigation into the drugs angle in
actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death case, a wider drugs nexus
in Bollywood surfaced.
    Rajput's talent manager Jaya Saha was questioned by
the NCB on Monday.
    The NCB has so far arrested more than 12 people,
including Rajput's girlfriend and actress Rhea Chakraborty and
her brother Showik Chakraborty, in connection with the probe
into the drugs angle in the case of the actor's death.
    Rajput (34) was found hanging at his home in Bandra
area here on June 14. PTI DC
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