A day after the arrest of comedian Bharti Singh, her husband Harsh Limbachiya was also arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau on Sunday following seizure of drugs from their house here, NCB officials said.
On Saturday, Ms. Singh was arrested by the NCB after seizure of ganja (cannabis) from her house in suburban Andheri, they said.
NCB on 21 November raided the production office and house of comedian Bharti Singh and from both the places 86.5 gms of ganja was recovered, reports news agency ANI.
Earlier on Saturday, pictures from outside their residence, an apartment complex in Andheri, showed Bharti Singh being driven away in a red Mercedes, while Harsh Limbachiyaa was taken in a white NCB van.
On arriving at the NCB’s office, Singh told reporters, “They have called us for some questioning, that’s all.”
“She (Ms Singh) and her husband have been detained for questioning about possession of narcotics substances,” Sameer Wankhede, one of the investigating officials, told ANI earlier.
Both Bharti and Harsh are well-known comedians, television personalities producing or hosting programmes, besides appearing in reality shows like ‘Khatron Ka Khiladi’, ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’.
The latest action is part of the ongoing investigations into the Bollywood-drugs mafia nexus which the NCB is trying to unravel since the past three months or so.
