Ragini Dwivedi made her debut inside the movie Veera Madakari in 2009.
Bengaluru:
Kannada actor Ragini Dwivedi, whose home was searched on Friday morning for an investigation into drug abuse, has been arrested, the police talked about.
The Central Crime Division (CCB) had served a uncover to the actor on Wednesday, asking her to depose sooner than them on Thursday, nonetheless she despatched a employees of attorneys on the lookout for time till Monday.
However, the police raided Ms Dwivedi’s residence early this morning after getting a search warrant from a court docket docket and took her to the CCB office inside the afternoon to question her, an officer talked about
Later inside the night time, in an announcement, Bengaluru Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Sandeep Patil talked about, “Ragini Dwivedi has been arrested and introduced into custody.”
Aside from, the actor, two people named Rahul and Viren Khanna had been arrested, he talked about. With this, four people have been arrested inside the case.
The police had earlier talked about arrested one Okay Ravishankar, who has hyperlinks contained in the Kannada film enterprise, in reference to the drugs case and a court docket docket has despatched him to police custody for five days.
In response to police, Viren Khanna is a gigantic catch. “He (Khanna) is the first one which organises enormous occasions the place medication are consumed. He was in Delhi and two CCB police inspectors had gone to Delhi and arrested him,” Mr Patil talked about.
Okay Ravishankar, additionally referred to as Ravi, a clerk inside the Road Transport Office, was arrested on Thursday whereas Rahul, a realtor, was taken into custody on Fruday, Bengaluru police commissioner Kamal Pant talked about.
Every of them went to high-end occasions incessantly and procure medication from abroad nationals, he talked about, together with that the two had been peddlers and clients.
The actor was in shut contact with Ravi, the police chief talked about.
In response to Mr Pant, police have started the second stage of investigation based totally on their revelations and accordingly totally different people have moreover been known as for questioning.
The CCB had intensified its investigation into a medication scandal in Bengaluru after the Narcotics Administration Bureau (NCB) arrested three people from the city, who had been allegedly supplying medication to singers and actors inside the Kannada film enterprise.
The scandal comes amid allegations of drug use surrounding the lack of lifetime of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June.
Ragini Dwivedi, whose family is from Haryana’s Rewari, was born in Bengaluru. She made her debut inside the movie Veera Madakari in 2009.
She shot to fame for her place in Kempe Gowda, Ragini IPS, Bangari and Shiva.
(With inputs from PTI)
