Munna Bhai MBBS actor to leave Big Boss for interrogation in drugs case

Mumaith Khan received summons as part of ongoing probe into Tollywood's links with drug peddlers

Actor Mumaith Khan's stint in the Bigg Boss house may well be cut short  after she received summons from the excise department as part of an ongoing probe into Tollywood's links with drug peddlers.

Mumaith scorched the silver screen with her dance in the Sanjay Dutt-starrer "Munnabhai MBBS" in 2003 and went on to do films in Telugu.

She will have to leave the Bigg Boss house in Lonavala and rush to Hyderabad for questioning by the excise department sleuths on July 27, The Times of India reported.

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Confirming that the actress, who is participating in reality show Bigg Boss Telugu, will be appearing before a Special Investigation Team (SIT), enforcement director Akun Sabharwal said Mumaith would have to appear for questioning like the others who have been issued notices under Section 67 of NDPS Act.



Trouble began brewing when the excise department busted a drug racket, which reportedly, had spread its tentacles into scores of schools and colleges in Hyderabad. Youngsters, sometimes as young as 12 or 13, had become addicted to drugs, including LSD and MMDA, and some girls were even trading their private pictures for drugs, according to First Post.

The revelations sent a chill down everyone’s spine and almost immediately, the government and the excise department sent notices to several schools and colleges to address the issue immediately. Several colleges and schools sent out circulars to the parents of all the kids studying in their school to watch out for symptoms of odd behaviour.

And just when it seemed like the government and other officials involved in busting this drug racket would address this issue seriously and put an end to the whole thing, the narrative shifted to drug abuse in film industry.

In fact, media reports, of late, have become so focused on a handful of actors, technicians who were served notices to appear before the SIT as part of the probe, that everyone seems to have conveniently forgotten what’s happening in the schools and colleges.

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Earlier this month, Allu Arvind, Suresh Babu and few others from the industry issued a warning to the film fraternity to stay away from drugs and urged them to not bring a bad name to the whole industry. However, it was too late by then. The names of some of the actors, who were under the scanner, was ‘leaked’ to the media and all hell break loose.

Several actors including Nandu, Subbaraju, Navdeep and Mumaith Khan, who received notices, denied these allegations; however, they are still expected to co-operate with the SIT.

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Puri Jagannadh was the first from the film industry to be interrogated and on July 20, cinematographer Shyam K Naidu was interrogated by SIT. Although it’s not yet clear what exactly were the conversations between the officials and people who were interrogated so far, all this seems to have originated from the alleged links of a certain Calvin Mascarenhas, a key accused arrested in the case, to few members in the industry.

Some media reports also suggested that a mobile phone retrieved from Ravi Teja’s brother Bharat, who died recently in a car crash, provided some more clues to establish these links between the drug suppliers and Telugu film industry.