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Deepika Padukone’s name has come up in the drug cartel case of Bollywood. The Narcotics Control Bureau had reportedly retrieved Deepika’s chats with Karishma Prakash, the manager of the actor. The agency has also summoned Dhruv Chitgopekar, CEO of the Kwan talent management agency for questioning. As per IANS, an NCB official said, “We have summoned Prakash, who works as a manager at Kwan and its CEO Dhruv”.

As per a report in Times Now, NCB is likely to serve summon to Deepika today and she will be asked about the WhatsApp chats with her manager where they allegedly talked about the banned drugs.

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The chats that are accessed by Times Now reveal that Deepika was asking Karishma for “Maal” and also spoke of ‘hash’ and ‘weed’.

The NCB officials said they will serve summons to Sara Ali Khan, Shraddha Kapoor, Rakul Preet Singh and fashion designer Simone Kambhatta this week for questioning in connection with its probe. Jaya Saha, former talent manager of Sushant Singh Rajput named filmmaker Madhu Mantena Verma during her interrogation by the NCB. He will be reportedly called for questioning on September 23.

Meanwhile, the latest reports state that Rhea’s judicial custody has been extended till October 6 by Special NDPS court. Rhea, Showik, Samuel Miranda and Dipesh Sawant were arrested a few days back.

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