Aryan Khan Drugs Case: Ananya Panday is associates with Aryan Khan’s sister Suhana. (File)
Highlights
- Ananya Panday will probably be questioned by NCB for the third time at present
- She was summoned on foundation of WhatsApp chats discovered on Aryan Khan’s cellphone
- NCB raided Ananya Panday’s dwelling and seized her digital gadgets
Mumbai:
Actor Ananya Panday won’t seem for questioning by the Narcotics Control Bureau at present in reference to a medicine case that entails Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan.
Ms Panday, 22, has sought extra time to reply the anti-drug company’s summons citing skilled commitments. Had she are available at present, it will have been for the third time in lower than per week.
She was first summoned reportedly on the idea of two-year-old WhatsApp chats discovered on Aryan Khan’s cellphone, particulars of which had earlier been leaked by the anti-drugs company.
Agency sources have indicated she was known as in once more as a result of her solutions are unsatisfactory.
The NCB has additionally raided her dwelling in Mumbai’s Bandra space and seized her digital gadgets.
Ms Panday is being questioned by NCB officer Sameer Wankhede – who’s main the investigation however is now additionally the subject of an internal vigilance probe after payoff allegations of Rs Eight crore – on chats that appear to point that in 2018-19 she thrice helped Aryan Khan procure medicine.
The actor has denied supplying drugs in the indicated mobile phone conversations; she advised NCB officers she has by no means consumed or provided banned narcotics, sources added.
Ms Panday was questioned on two separate events final week for a complete of six hours.
A NCB official mentioned the company just isn’t, at this stage, treating the actor as something aside from a “part of the investigation”; “… just because she is summoned doesn’t mean she is a suspect,” the official mentioned.
Aryan Khan and a number of other others had been arrested on October 3, a day after they had been detained following a medicine raid on a cruise ship anchored off the Mumbai coast.
No drugs were found on him; the case relies solely on info from his WhatsApp chats.
The company has claimed these chats point out he was in contact with a world medicine cartel.
Aryan’s attorneys have rubbished the fees, underlining the very fact no medicine had been discovered on him, and that there isn’t a proof (past an announcement, allegedly given underneath duress) of consumption.
His attorneys have additionally identified that casual conversations between young people today may contain slangs, colloquialisms, or idioms that older generations won’t fairly perceive.
Ananya Panday, the daughter of actor Chunky Panday, made her Bollywood debut in 2019 and is among the many rising youthful technology of stars within the Hindi movie trade.
Aryan Khan has been in jail since October 8, and he has been denied bail after heated hearings in decrease courts. He has now applied to the Bombay High Court, which will hear his plea tomorrow.