Ananya Panday: Anti-drugs agency questions Bollywood actress – BBC News

India’s anti-drugs company is questioning Bollywood actress Ananya Panday simply weeks after it arrested celebrity Shah Rukh Khan’s son for allegedly doing leisure medicine.

The Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) has not mentioned that her questioning is instantly linked to Aryan Khan’s arrest.

It has additionally not made it clear why Panday has been referred to as to its workplace in Mumbai for a second day in a row.

Aryan Khan, 23, has denied the allegation towards him.

Ms Panday has not made any assertion concerning the NCB’s summons to her.

Aryan Khan was taken off a cruise ship that was travelling from Mumbai to the state of Goa on 2 October. The NCB charged him beneath legal guidelines “associated to possession, consumption and sale of unlawful substances”.

His lawyer Satish Manshinde mentioned that there was “no proof that he had consumed any medicine” and “no medicine had been present in his possession”.

However a court docket in Mumbai on Wednesday rejected his bail for a second time. His arrest and now the summons to Ms Panday are dominating media headlines in India.

Some consultants have criticised the extreme media “circus” on these circumstances. A former high police officer informed the BBC that these “younger individuals are being handled like criminals even earlier than they’ve been discovered responsible”.

“Parading them in entrance of the media like criminals would not assist anybody and this circus should cease,” he mentioned.

Many Bollywood actors and TV personalities have been beneath scrutiny since final 12 months in what seemed to be an investigation into claims of widespread drug use within the Hindi movie business.

In 2020, the narcotics company questioned not less than 4 actresses, together with Deepika Padukone, however none have been accused of any wrongdoing.

Additionally they arrested actress Rhea Chakraborty in September final 12 months for allegedly shopping for medicine for her actor boyfriend, Sushant Singh Rajput.

Mr Rajput, 34, was discovered useless in his flat on 14 June. Police on the time mentioned he had taken his personal life. However the case took an sudden flip when his household accused Ms Chakraborty of abetment to suicide, sparking months of media protection and hypothesis.

Ms Chakraborty, who had denied any wrongdoing, was launched from jail a month after her arrest.