Executive Producer Kshitij Prasad Sent To Judicial Custody Till Oct 6 In Bollywood Drug Abuse Case

A former employee of Dharmatic Entertainment Kshitij Prasad was sent to judicial custody till October 6 by a special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) court on Saturday, Hindustan Times (HT) reported.

He was arrested in connection with the probe into the drugs angle into actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death.

The executive producer was remanded in the custody of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) till October 3 following questioning in the alleged Bollywood drug nexus.

He was arrested for allegedly receiving contraband from suspected peddlers who had supplied charas to actor Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik. He, however, claimed that he was being framed, HT reported.

Prasad had alleged that he was forced by NCB to falsely implicate Karan Johar and other executives of the production house in the case of alleged consumption of drugs, the report added.