Aryan Khan Drugs Case: Ananya Pandey is friend of Aryan Khan’s sister Suhana. (file)
Highlight
- NCB will interrogate Ananya Pandey for the third time today
- He was summoned on the basis of a WhatsApp chat found on Aryan Khan’s phone
- NCB raids Ananya Pandey’s house and seizes her electronic devices
Mumbai:
Actress Ananya Pandey will not appear for questioning by the Narcotics Control Bureau today in connection with the drugs case involving Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan.
Ms Pandey, 22, has sought more time to respond to the anti-drug agency’s summons, citing professional commitments. Had she come today, it would have been the third time in less than a week.
He was allegedly summoned for the first time on the basis of a two-year-old WhatsApp chat found on Aryan Khan’s phone, details of which were earlier leaked by the anti-drug agency.
Agency sources have indicated that he was called again as his answers were unsatisfactory.
The NCB also raided his house in Mumbai’s Bandra area and seized his electronic devices.
Ms. Pandey is being questioned by NCB officer Sameer Wankhede – who is leading the investigation but now she is also subject of internal vigilance check After allegations of payment of Rs 8 crore – on chat it seems that she helped Aryan Khan buy drugs thrice in 2018-19.
The actor has denied supply of drugs in the indicated mobile phone conversation; He told the NCB officials that he had never consumed or supplied banned narcotics.
Ms Pandey was questioned on two separate occasions last week for a total of six hours.
An NCB official said that the agency is not treating the actor as anything but “part of the investigation” at this stage; “… Just because he’s called doesn’t mean he’s a suspect,” said the officer.
Aryan Khan and several others were arrested on October 3, a day after they were detained following a drug raid on a cruise ship anchored off the Mumbai coast.
no medicine found on it; The case is completely based on the information received from his WhatsApp chat.
The agency has claimed that these chats indicated that he was in contact with an international drugs cartel.
Aryan’s lawyers have dismissed the allegations, underlining the fact that no drug was found on him, and that there is no evidence of consumption (beyond an allegedly pressurized statement).
His lawyers have also pointed out that Informal conversations among today’s young people can be slang, colloquial languages, or idioms that older generations may not fully understand.
Actor Chunky Pandey’s daughter Ananya Pandey made her Bollywood debut in 2019 and is among the rising young generation of stars in the Hindi film industry.
Aryan Khan has been in jail since October 8, and has been denied bail after a heated hearing in lower courts. he has now Applied to Bombay High Court, which will hear his petition tomorrow.
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