Arjun Rampal interrogated for seven hours in Bollywood drug case

Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal’s troubles mounted as the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) grilled him for nearly 7 hours even as his Australian friend Paul Bartel was arrested in a drug-related case investigation, official sources said on Friday, reported Hindustan Times.

Bartel was reportedly in regular contact with Agisialos Demetriades, an alleged drug peddler, arrested by NCB in October, and the brother of Gabriella Demetriades, the live-in partner of Rampal.

An architect living in Bandra, Bartel was questioned by NCB on Thursday and early Friday placed under arrest in the same case in which Bollywood actor Rhea Chakraborty and at least 20 others have been arrested in the past three months of NCB probe.

Since around noon, Rampal was grilled by the NCB, after his girlfriend, Gabriella was questioned for more than 12 hours spread over Wednesday-Thursday, while Bartel was quizzed on Thursday and arrested on Saturday.

Interacting briefly with media persons after he exited the NCB office, Rampal said: “I am fully co-operating with the NCB investigations. I have nothing to do with drugs. The medicine found at my residence (in the Monday’s raids) was prescribed by a doctor. The prescription has been handed over to the NCB…. The NCB officials are doing a good job and I fully support them in their investigations.”

The NCB’s Bollywood drugs angle probe was launched after the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput at his Bandra home five months ago – on June 14 – in which several prominent personalities like Deepika Padukone, Shraddha Kapoor, Sara Ali Khan, Rakul Preet Singh, Firoz Nadiadwala and others have been either questioned, arrested or raided, and many others said to be on the agency’s radar.

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