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By: Shree1news, 23 NOV 2020
Comedian Bharti Singh and her husband Haarsh Limbachiyaa granted bail by a Special NDPS court in Mumbai. On Sunday, the star couple was sent in judicial custody until December 4 after they had been arrested in a drugs seizure and consumption case filed by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
Shortly after the court order, the couple’s lawyer Ayaz Khan filed bail applications and now they’ve been granted bail. Whereas Bharti was arrested late on Saturday, Harsh was nabbed early Sunday morning by the NCB within the wake of raids at their house and workplace in Andheri West which led to alleged seizure of 86.50 gm of marijuana or ‘ganja’.
The NCB has invoked Sections of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances pertaining to possession of small portions of restricted drugs and their consumption. The arrests that shocked the entertainment circles got here after they had been named by two peddlers arrested from Khar-Danda early on Saturday, in accordance with the NCB. After the seizure, the couple additionally confessed to consuming drugs, following which they had been interrogated and arrested.
“We have arrested Bharti Singh and found a little over 86 gm marijuana from her,” NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede mentioned on Saturday. The seized quantity attracts a jail time period of six months and/or a fine.
Amongst different issues, Harsh has allegedly instructed the NCB that he used to obtain the drugs for self-consumption only.
The NCB had raided a location in Khar-Danda, a coastal area in Khar suburb, and nabbed a 21-year drug trafficker from whom commercial quantities of drugs like 15 blots of LSD, 40 gm ganja and a psychotropic drug had been seized, stated Wankhede. Armed with this info, the NCB busted different places, together with the house and places of work of the Bharti-Harsh couple in suburban Andheri West’s modern Lokhandwala Complex and Versova, from the place 86.50 gm of the banned marijuana was seized.
Source: A-N
