Narco sleuths get leads on cartels supplying drugs to B’wood stars

The drug connection in Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case is just a tip of the iceberg.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which is investigating the ‘drug angle’ in Sushant’s death case, has gathered vital leads on other cartels supplying drugs to several Bollywood personalities in Mumbai following the interrogation of two drug peddlers, Abbas Lakhani and Karan Arora, highly placed sources in the NCB told IANS.
Based on these leads, the NCB would launch a nationwide crackdown on cartels involved in drug trafficking in Mumbai and other key metros.
The entire operation to unearth big-time drug syndicates and cartels is being supervised by NCB chief Rakesh Asthana, a 1984 batch IPS officer, who earlier cracked one of the biggest international cocaine syndicates in India originating from Columbia, late last year.
Top sources in NCB said that electronic evidence gathered by the bureau during the interrogation of Abbas Lakhani and Karan Arora revealed that leading Bollywood personalities were not only supplied marijuana or buds, but high quality cocaine was also being pushed into the film industry.
The NCB sleuths are gathering more evidence which eventually would result in a ‘nationwide coordinated action’ against the drug cartels, hawala operators and key peddlers involved in supplying narcotic substances to some of the best known names in the film Industry.
Based on the WhatsApp chats of Bollywood actress Rhea Chakravarty, the girlfriend of late Sushant Singh Rajput, related to supply of buds, the NCB also apprehended an eatery shop owner in Bandra named Zaid Vilatra.
The link between Zaid, Abbas and Karan was later established. Interrogation of another suspect, Basit Parhiar, also gave important clues to the NCB.
The investigation into the drug connection in the Sushant Singh Rajput case has so far revealed that besides supplying buds, certain cocaine cartels active in Mumbai were also supplying high quality drugs to various filmstars.
Cocaine priced at Rs 5 crore per kg is a highly expensive party drug usually supplied to high-end customers in the metros.
In Sushant’s case, the WhatsApp chats suggest that only buds, which come quite cheap in comparison to cocaine, were being delivered.
“However, the peddlers during their sustained interrogation revealed that the cartels active in Mumbai were also supplying cocaine to certain clients,” a source added. (IANS)