Kannada Actor Ragini Dwivedi Arrested for Drug Nexus
Kannada actor Ragini Dwivedi has been arrested on Friday night time for her alleged involvement with a drug trafficking syndicate in Bengaluru.
Central crime department sleuths, who wondered Ragini throughout the day for her alleged hyperlinks with others concerned within the drug peddling case, arrested her after her two houses in Bengaluru had been searched.
On Thursday, two suspected drug peddlars Ravishankar and Rahul Shetty, had been arrested through the CCB. Ravishankar, a Karnataka executive delivery division worker, used to be allegedly a detailed aide of Ragini, on account of which she used to be summoned for wondering.
30-year-old Ragini, who has over 25 motion pictures to her credit score and has received the SIIMA award 8 years again, had consulted attorneys abt the case too. She had kept away from wondering on Thursday mentioning sickness. On Friday, she seemed ahead of the CCB.
Shetty, a recognized title within the Kannada movie circle, is a detailed good friend of every other distinguished actor Sanjjanaa Galrani, who has acted in lots of South Indian languages. Her function has additionally been investigated, despite the fact that she mentioned she handiest knew shetty thru movie networks.
“So far as I do know, he’s a pleasing particular person, he has acted for small roles. If he has executed one thing fallacious, I have no idea why my title is getting blended up on this,” mentioned Sanjjanaa.
There are 12 individuals accused within the sou motu case taken up through the police in West Bengaluru. To this point, 4 of the 12 were arrested.
Any other arrested particular person is Viren Khanna, who used to be picked up through CCB inspectors from Delhi. He’s allegedly a smartly attached particular person who organises large events. Ravishankar used to be suspended from his executive activity.
“CCB has been operating in this for the remaining one month,” mentioned Bengaluru Police Commissioner Kamal Pant, at a press convention Friday night time.
The investigation has been in response to inputs gleaned all the way through the interrogation of the 3, but even so checking their telephone data. It’s now widening to the second one layer in their networks, Pant mentioned.
“They (Ravishankar and Rahul) procured medication from a international nationwide. We’ve zeroed in on that nationwide as smartly. Sure knowledge are given through him on previous incidents. Our officials are operating on that,” Pant mentioned.
