A Mumbai court docket on Sunday remanded previous
Dharma Productions
‘ government
Kshitij Prasad
to the Narcotics Regulate Bureau’s custody till Oct three. Amidst news of his arrest, studies carrying out the rounds declare that the
NCB
allegedly “forced” Prasad to falsely implicate
Karan Johar
and other leading personalities of Dharma Productions.
In a Instances Now report, Satish Maneshinde, who is representing
Rhea Chakraborty
, alleged that Kshitij was subjected to coercion by the company and was allegedly “forced” to implicate Johar and other personalities. Reports even further go on to declare that Prasad was even “ill-treated” in the course of his interrogation and was allegedly manufactured to sit on the flooring all through his questioning spherical.
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Nonetheless, Deputy DG NCB (South West) Mutha Ashok Jain rubbished the allegations, and claimed that the investigation was carried out in a “professional manner.”
Although the NCB, in their petition searching for law enforcement custody, claimed that it recovered a roll joint believed to be the remnants of a smoked Ganja roll, and seized specific files and gizmos. Prasad has denied all the rates and claimed that he is becoming “framed.”
Prasad was nabbed on Saturday evening by the NCB soon after his sustained interrogation subsequent to his title cropping up through the probe of the other accused. He was produced prior to a Justice of the peace Court docket by the NCB trying to find his remand for 9 days, but the courtroom granted 6 days.
In a seven-website page remand application, the NCB Joint Intelligence Officer Murari Lal claimed that Sanket Patel, a peddler who had been arrested before, had supplied Ganja to Prasad on the orders of a further co-accused Karamjeet Singh Anand.
According to a report on ANI, the NCB explained that Prasad is indirectly connected with Anuj Keshwani – from whom commercial quantities of narcotics were being seized.
With Prasad’s arrest, the total netted by the NCB in the
medications circumstance
has touched twenty until Sunday. Even though some are in NCB custody, other people are in judicial custody and the rest have been enlarged on bail by a variety of courts.
In the meantime, filmmaker Karan Johar has distanced himself from the probe. He issued a assertion late Friday night, denying promises that Prasad was linked with his organisation.
In his publish, Karan said that Kshitij had joined Dharmatic Leisure, a sister issue of Dharma Productions, in November 2019 as 1 of the govt producers “on contract basis for a venture, which did not inevitably materialise.”