NCB denies claims of Deepika Padukone's co-stars 'A', 'R' and 'S' being summoned on drug scandal

The Narcotics Control Bureau has quashed  reports about Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone’s co-stars being on their radar. Reports doing the rounds claimed that the names of top actors with the initials ‘A’, ‘R’ and ‘S’ are currently under the scanner for their alleged involvement in the drug probe that emerged out of the Sushant Singh Rajput death case. As per a E-Times report, senior NCB officials termed the news false and baseless.The senior official has been handling the drug case and was also among the team that questioned actresses Deepika Padukone, Sara Ali Khan and Shraddha Kapoor last weekend.According to reports, Shraddha and Deepika's name had come up in alleged ‘drug chats’ while Sara was named in a statement by boatman during investigations in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case.

The agency has also refuted claims about clean chit given to the three heroines and others questioned in connection with the drugs case surrounding the death Sushant Singh Rajput, saying such reports are "devoid" of "truth and facts".It was reported that Padukone and Prakash told the NCB officials they had used the words ‘maal’, ‘weed’, ‘hash’ and ‘doob’ as “code names” for various kinds of cigarettes “for fun”, in their 2017 WhatsApp chats.The two said they that for low-quality cigarettes, they used ‘maal’, for slim and better quality ones ‘hash and weed’, and for the thick ones as ‘doob’. The bureau suspected that a top lawyer had tutored the three actors as they were summoned by the NCB last week to probe the Bollywood drug links that emerged during the probe into Sushant Singh Rajput case. According to sources, the actors said that they did not consume drugs. The agency had earlier arrested Rhea Chakraborty, her brother Showik, Rajput's manager Samuel Miranda and domestic help Dipesh Sawant and some suspected drug peddlers, in its drugs probe.