KWAN talent management company and Deepika Padukone's manager Karishma Prakash on Friday appeared before the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and reportedly confessed that Deepika had a WhatsApp group running dealing with drug chats.
According to sources, Karishma told the NCB officials during the probe that Deepika was the admin of a WhatsApp chat group related to drugs. There were only three people in the chat group including Jaya Saha, Karishma Prakash, and Deepika Padukone. The WhatsApp group chat on drugs dates back to 2017.
In addition to this, Rakul Preet Singh also appeared before NCB on Friday. Sources told Zee News, that Rakul confessed to Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) about drugs chat with Rhea Chakraborty in 2018. Rakul told NCB officials that Rhea Chakraborty, in 2018, "spoke to her about getting weed which was at Rakul's house", however, Rakul has denied consumption.
As for Deepika, the actresses' name emerged in the investigation after her 2017 WhatsApp chats with manager Karishma Prakash were retrieved where the actress is allegedly seen asking for 'hash'. Soon after that, chats of Jaya Saha, an employee of the KWAN talent management agency also surfaced. She was probed and later admitted to having arranged CBD oil for Shraddha Kapoor, Madhu Mantena, and a few others.
On September 26, besides Deepika, Sara Ali Khan and Shraddha Kapoor are also expected to be questioned by the federal agency.
On Friday, Deepika's husband Ranveer Singh formally asked the central anti-drug agency whether he can be present during his wife’s questioning.
In his application to the NCB, Ranveer Singh wrote how Deepika Padukone sometimes suffers from anxiety and gets panic attacks, and hence he should be granted permission to be with her.
