On Tuesday a special NDPS court in Mumbai granted bail to Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal’s partner Gabriella Demetriades’s brother, Agisilaos Demetriades and two others in an alleged drug-related case which emerged during the probe of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case.
Agisilaos has been granted bail with a surety of Rs 50,000 while he has also been asked to submit his passport and not to leave the city without the Narcotics Control Bueau’s knowledge. Meanwhile, today Arjun Rampal was asked to appear before the NCBteam for the second time after Gabriella was summoned twice by the investigating agency. However, the actor has seemed time till December 21 to appear before the agency team.
Agisilaos Demetriades was arrested in October after the NCB team raided a resort in Lonavala where he was celebrating his birthday and allegedly found 0.8 grams of a sticky brown substance.
Although he was granted bail by Special Judge GB Gurao in October, he remained in jail at the time since the NCB had filed an FIR in another drug-related matter.
Demetriades’s lawyer Kushal Mor told the court, no person could be vexed twice for the same cause and that there was no new evidence to support the allegations against him.
The only new piece of evidence were statements of co- accused, which, in view of a recent Supreme Court ruling related to statements made before NCB officers, were not admissible, Mor said.
Kshitij Ravi Prasad, a former Dharmatic Entertainment executive producer, who was arrested on September 26 under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, was also given bail.
Nigerian national Uka Emeka was also given bail by the special NDPS court.
The NCB, after the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June, began a probe into alleged drug use in the film industry and has, so far, arrested several persons. ( TOI )
