Mumbai: Bollywood actor Armaan Kohli was being questioned by the Narcotics Control Bureau after banned drugs were allegedly recovered from his house here, sources in the central agency said.
An NCB team raided Kohli’s house in the evening and later took him to the agency’s office in south Mumbai as some narcotics were found at his house, said an official. NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede and others were quizzing him, he added.
Kohli had featured in the Salman Khan-starter ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Payo’ among other films and was also one of the contestants of the TV reality show Bigg Boss.
The action against Kohli followed the arrest of TV actor Gaurav Dixit by the central anti-drugs agency here the day before.
The NCB on Saturday sought the custody of Dixit, informing a court here that he was a member of a drug cartel.
Dixit was arrested by the Mumbai zonal team of the NCB on Friday, and produced before a magistrate court, which remanded him to the probe agency’s custody till August 30.
The NCB had been on the lookout for the actor for the past few months after his name cropped up in the interrogation of actor Ajaz Khan and some other persons in April this year.
The NCB, represented by special public prosecutor Advait Sethna, told the court that Khan in his voluntary statement revealed about Dixit’s role in the case.
On the basis leads given by Khan, the NCB had conducted a search at Dixit’s house in suburban Andheri and recovered drugs and psychotropic substances.
The actor had been issued a notice, but remained absconding since April 2021, until his arrest on Friday, the probe agency said.
The NCB stated that Dixit and co-accused in the case were part of a drug cartel, and frequently indulged in illegal activities such as consumption of charas, and the actor also allowed his premises to be used for storing contraband.
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