The Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) has summoned movie producer Madhu Mantena on Wednesday together with Sushant Singh Rajput’s former expertise supervisor Jaya Saha and his ex-manager Shruti Modi for questioning in reference to the drug-related probe within the Bollywood actor’s demise case, information company ANI reported.
Saha has been known as for the third spherical of questioning whereas Modi shall be quizzed for the second time on Wednesday. The duo was first summoned on September 16 however the questioning was postponed after one of many members of the investigating staff examined optimistic for the coronavirus illness (Covid-19).
Earlier within the day, the central company, which is probing the drug hyperlink in Rajput’s demise, had summoned Bollywood expertise company KWAN Company’s CEO Dhruv Chitgopekar, deputy director of NCB KPS Malhotra confirmed. Chitgopekar reached the Bombay Port Belief (BPT) guesthouse, the place NCB officers had been questioning folks, round 2 pm.
Malhotra, nevertheless, denied studies of KWAN worker and actor Deepika Padukone’s supervisor Karishma Prakash being summoned by the company. “No summons have been issued to Prakash. However we are going to summon her later this week,” he mentioned.
The company had earlier confirmed that Bollywood actors Sara Ali Khan, Rakul Preet Singh and designer Simone Khambatta will even be known as to hitch the NCB probe this week.
The actors shall be summoned beneath Part 67 of the Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, after they had been named by Rhea Chakraborty whereas she was being interrogated between September 6 and September eight earlier than being arrested, NCB officers mentioned.