The Narcotics Control Bureau has summoned Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal here on Wednesday for questioning during a drugs case, an NCB official said on Tuesday.
Rampal has been asked to stay present before the NCB team, which is conducting a search into the alleged Bollywood- drugs nexus following the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, the official said.
This is the second time that the NCB will question the model-turned-actor within the drugs case.
Earlier, he was questioned by the agency on November 13 for around seven hours.
Rampal was summoned on Wednesday after the NCB obtained some information during interrogation of a number of the persons arrested within the drugs case, the official said
The NCB last month conducted searches at Rampal’s residence in Bandra area of Mumbai and seized electronic gadgets and a few medicines banned under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
His partner Gabriella Demtriades was also questioned by the agency for 2 days last month within the case.
Gabriella’s brother Agisilaos Demetriades was arrested by the NCB within the case in October and it had been found that he was in-tuned with many Bollywood celebrities, the official said.
Rampal’s friend Paul Bartel was also earlier arrested by the NCB within the drugs case.
Based on some WhatsApp chats involving drugs, the NCB launched a search into the alleged drug use in Bollywood after the death of Rajput in June this year.
The central agency had earlier arrested Rajput’s girlfriend, actress Rhea Chakraborty, her brother Showik, some employees of the late filmstar and a couple of others under sections of the NDPS Act.
