NCB suspends 2 investigating officers for no-show in Court in Bharti Singh case
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Role of the investigating officers discovered to be “suspicious”; inside inquiry being performed by NCB’s Mumbai zonal unit, says official
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The Narcotics Control Bureau has suspended two of its investigating officers after they failed to look earlier than a Court right here through the listening to of bail pleas of comic Bharti Singh and her husband in a medication case, an NCB official stated on Thursday.
The two officers have been conducting a probe into the medication case in which Ms. Singh and her husband Harsh Limbachiya have been arrested final month and later granted bail by a Mumbai court docket on November 23.
The two NCB officers and a public prosecutor failed to look through the scheduled bail listening to of Ms. Singh and her husband, and through listening to on the anticipatory bail utility of actor Deepika Padukone’s supervisor Karishma Prakash, the official stated.
As the function of the investigating officers has been discovered to be “suspicious” in each the instances, an inside inquiry has been ordered and it’s being performed by the NCB’s Mumbai zonal unit, the official stated.
Since the inquiry is on, the 2 NCB officers have been positioned below suspension, he stated.
“The role of the public prosecutor is also under scanner,” the official stated.
The NCB has moved an utility earlier than a Court right here to problem the bail granted to Bharti Singh and her husband, he added.
Ms. Singh was arrested by the NCB on November 21 and her husband was taken into custody the following day, after the probe company recovered 86.5 gm ganja throughout search on the couple’s residence and workplace in Mumbai.
The couple was granted bail by a court docket right here on November 23.
Earlier, On October 27, the NCB performed searches on the residence of Karishma Prakash and recovered 1.8 gram cannabis from there, throughout its probe into the alleged nexus between drug peddlers and Bollywood celebrities which got here to gentle after actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s loss of life.
Ms. Prakash was summoned by the NCB probe staff varied occasions. She later moved Court in search of anticipatory bail, sources stated.
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