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Nadiadwala’s Wife Arrested After Raid Finds 10g Marijuana

Mumbai: Pushing forward its crackdown on the Bollywood-drug mafia links, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) raided the house of famous film producer Firoz A. Nadiadwala and seized drugs worth around Rs 3.59 lakh, an authority stated here on Sunday. The NCB has additionally taken Nadiadwala’s wife Shabana Saeed into custody, other than the three other drug peddlers in the operation led at different places in the city and in Thane throughout the day.

It recovered 717.1 gms ganja, 74.1 gms charas and 95.1 gms MD (commercial quantity), worth Rs.3.59 lakh from Nadiadwala’s home in Juhu and another area.

Other than that, another 10 gms of ganja was recovered from another accused Wahid A. Kadir Shaikh, alias Sultan.

Saeed’s statement was recorded after which Nadiadwala’s wife Shabana was put in custody, said the NCB official.

There was speculation that Firoz Nadiadwala is probably going to be called for interrogation, however, there was no confirmation from the authorities.

The operation is part of the ongoing investigation over the course of the past 3 months to unravel the nexus among Bollywood and the drugs mafia in the nation’s film capital.

The Nadiadwalas are a famous family of film-makers behind several blockbuster films and introducing significant stars to Bollywood in the past over thirty years. Nadiadwala’s significant productions include the “Hera Pheri” series, “Awara Pagal Deewana”, “Welcome”, “Aarakshan” and others.

The agency’s crackdown on Bollywood started after the passing of actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June with allegations that his girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty, likewise an actor, helped him purchase drugs.

From that point forward, entertainers Deepika Padukone, Sara Ali Khan, Rakul Preet Singh and Shraddha Kapoor and others have been brought in for interrogation by the NCB.

Sources in the agency, whose mandate is to go after bigger drug cartels and not individual buyers, have stated it was summoning Bollywood A-listers to understand the network of supply through the alleged buyers.

The investigation has directed a torrent of hate and abuse at Bollywood from a part of social media and news networks provoking the film industry to speak out in the previous month.

In a lawsuit filed in the Delhi High Court, famous filmmakers including Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Salman Khan, Ajay Devgn, Aditya Chopra, Karan Johar and Farhan Akhtar asked two TV channels Republic TV and Times Now to abstain from “irresponsible reporting” and vilification.

 

source: with input from ians