The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Thursday made a new arrest in their ongoing probe into the Bollywood ‘drugs nexus’ case. The agency nabbed a man named Jai Madhok who is an alleged peddler and was linked with supplying and consumption of drugs in the city. Madhok, a management graduate who works in the banking sector was in touch with some of the accused already arrested in the case, like Kshitij Prasad. As per a Pinkvilla report, Madhok was allegedly supplying banned substances to Bollywood celebs. Talking about Madhok, he was allegedly procuring drugs from Nigerians. The agency will reportedly probe the stars with whom he was in touch and supplied drugs. Talking about Prasad, he was arrested by the agency on September 26, 2020.
As per reports, NCB has opposed his bail at the NDPS court on Wednesday. A few days earlier, numerous names were dragged in the Bollywood drug nexus post which the agency summoned and interrogated them. Among them are Sara Ali Khan, Shraddha Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, and Rakul Preet Singh. Moreover, talent manager Jaya Saha and Deepika’s manager Karishma Prakash were also questioned by the agency in connection with the same. Apart from Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik, NCB had also arrested Sushant Singh Rajput’s former house manager Samuel Miranda and staffer Dipesh Sawant. Meanwhile, Rhea and Samuel were recently granted bail by the Bombay High Court in the matter while Showik continues to stay inside the jail.