Bengaluru/Mysuru: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted a massive narcotics racket in Bengaluru, that supplied drugs to celebrities and prominent personalities, including Sandalwood actors.
Sources say that three renowned female actors, two male actors, three TV actors, one music director and a few children of famous personalities are said to have had very close connections with the drug dealers.
It may be recalled that the NCB arrested the racket kingpin and former television actress D. Anikha and two of her associates M. Anoop and R. Ravindran while confiscating huge cache of narcotics.
It is now said that the NCB sleuths were informed about the customers by Anikha during interrogation.
The agency has seized 145 ecstasy or MDMA pills and over Rs. 2.2 lakh cash from Royal Suits Hotel Apartment, Kalyan Nagar on Aug. 21. In the follow up action, the team confiscated 96 pills of MDMA and 180 LSD blots at Nikoo Homes in Bengaluru. Later, 270 pills of MDMA were recovered from the house of Anikha, located at Doddagubbi.
Home Miister Basavaraj Bommai said that awareness programmes on the ill-effects of drugs will be held in schools and colleges once the academic activities begin.
“If intoxicating susbstances are found in school, college campuses, then the management of the institutions will be held responsible,” he said.
The entire crackdown on drug racket happened following the Sushant Singh Rajput case gaining the narcotics angle.
