Kannada actress, 11 others booked under NDPS Act
More skeletons out of closet
Bengaluru, Sept. 5: The Bengaluru police have registered a case of drug abuse against 12 people, including Kannada film actress Ragini Dwivedi, stating that they were supplying drugs to various people at parties through drug peddlers.
The case registered by the police department on its own under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances ( NDPS) Act has been taken up on a complaint by the Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Central Crime Branch of Bengaluru K. C. Gautham against “who’s who of Bengaluru high end party circle,” top police sources said.
Those booked under the NDPS Act are Shivaprakash, Ragini Dwivedi, Veeren Khanna, Prashant Ranka, Vaibhav Jain, Aditya Alva, Loom Pepper Samba, Prashanth Raju, Ashwin, Abhiswamy, Rahul Thonshe and Vijay, they said.
Loom Pepper is from Decar City in Senegal, police said, adding the rest are from Bengaluru.
Besides these 12 people, a separate case has been registered against B K Ravishankar, a clerk in the Road Transport Office who was a close acquaintance of Ragini Dwivedi, the police said.
He was the first catch in the case and is in custody in another case, the police added.
ACP Gautham stated in his complaint that Ravishankar revealed the names of these 12 people during interrogation.
“All these persons from accused number- 1 to accused number- 12 people including Dwivedi used to connive together to hold ( Rave) parties at different parts of Bengaluru and call many clients. They used to obtain drugs from the drug peddlers to supply them to businessmen, celebrities, some film actors and actresses, disk jockeys, software engineers and others and make money through illegal means and indulged in unlawful activities,” the ACP said in his complaint.
According to police, the six people arrested include Dwivedi, Ravishankar, Rahul, Veeren Khanna and Loom Pepper.
While Ragini Dwivedi was arrested last evening, her friend Ravishankar, a clerk at RTO in Jayanagar and Rahul Shetty, a real estate businessman, were arrested on Thursday.