Baahubali actor caught up in drug racket case, appears before SIT
- Baahubali actor P Subbaraju appeared before SIT for questioning in Hyderabad drug racket case.
- P Subbaraju is the third rom Tollywood who appeared for questioning after SIT issued summons to 12 of its prominent personalities.
- He was mainly questioned about his involvement in the racket and with the king pin Calvin Mascarenhas.
FollowBaahubali 2 actor P Subbaraju appeared before Excise and Prohibition Department's Special Investigation Team in connection with the drug racket case in Hyderabad. Subbaraju was interrogated by SIT head S Srinivasa Rao, Excise Director (Enforcement) director Akun Sabharwal along with some officials regarding his involvement in the case.Â
After the big names from Telugu film industry like Ravi Teja, Puri Jagannadh and Mumaith Khan in drug racket, another such name has come into the light and that is none other than P Subbaraju, who played Kumara Varma in Baahubali 2: The Conclusion. Actress Charmme Kaur too was summoned by SIT. Meanwhile, Charmme’s father Deep Singh Uppal has said that his daughter has nothing to do with the drugs case. He said the allegations had pained her.
Among the 13-people arrested so far in connection with the racket is a US citizen, identified as Dundu Anish, a former aerospace engineer who had worked with NASA, and seven B Tech graduates, most of whom were working with multi-national companies in Hyderabad.
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Post the arrest, a few Tollywood personalities cropped up during the interrogation of the arrested people, the excise officials had earlier said, adding the focus of their investigation will be on whether they (to whom the notices were issued) were drug users, peddlers or suppliers.
The racketeers used to sell high-end drugs such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and methylenedioxy- methamphetamine (MDMA) after placing orders for them through darknet and got delivered the banned narcotics by courier. In some cases, drugs were sent to them through courier from foreign countries.
The SIT has asked officials of three major courier firms to come and meet them in connection with the probe into these cases. A letter has also been addressed to the chief post master general requesting support from the postal department. LSD, sold as tablets and liquid, is known to be one of the most potent mood-changing chemicals, while MDMA, commonly referred to as molly or ecstasy, is a popular recreational or party drug.
As per investigators, the gang has almost 1,000 customers which includes city-based schools and colleges and some employees of IT firms in Cyberabad. The excise officials also said a six-member team led by Deputy Commissioner (Prohibition and Excise-Hyderabad) Vivekananda Reddy, will be undergoing a six-day United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Training Programme on Combating Drug Trafficking at Bengaluru from July 24.
(With PTI Inputs)
