Television
actress
Preetika
Chauhan
was
caught
red-handed
by
the
Narcotics
Control
Bureau
(NCB)
while
taking
drugs
from
a
peddler.
A
senior
official
of
NCB
said
that
she
was
intercepted
while
taking
the
delivery
of
marijuana
and
has
been
arrested
by
the
department.
Preetika
has
worked
in
many
TV
serials,
including
Savdhaan
India
and
Devo
Ke
Dev
Mahadev.
News
agency
ANI
confirmed
the
news
and
tweeted,
“A
team
of
Mumbai
Zonal
Unit
apprehended
two
persons
at
Machhimar,
Versova,
and
succeeded
in
a
seizure
of
99
grams
of
Ganja
from
their
possession,
yesterday.
The
two
persons
-
one
Faisal
&
TV
actor
Preetika
Chauhan
-
were
arrested
&
produced
before
court:
Narcotics
Control
Bureau”
For
the
uninitiated,
the
officials
from
Mumbai
NCB
have
conducted
three
raids
since
Saturday,
October
24
in
a
major
crackdown
against
drug
trafficking.
This
has
led
to
the
arrest
of
six
persons
in
total
including
actress
Preetika
Chauhan
and
a
Tanzanian
national.
The
operation,
headed
by
NCB’s
Mumbai
zonal
director
Sameer
Wankhede,
had
officers
deployed
in
plain
clothes
across
multiple
locations.
The
NCB
teams
are
unearthing
drug
syndicates
linked
in
supplying
banned
contraband
to
celebrities.
These
crackdowns
have
come
in
the
wake
of
the
ongoing
drug
probe
associated
with
late
actor
Sushant
Singh
Rajput’s
passing
away
on
June
14,
2020.
The
agency
has
reportedly
come
across
international
links
in
which
the
contraband
is
sourced
from
overseas
and
sold
through
multiple
layers
of
carriers
in
Mumbai
who
are
involved
in
the
supply
chain
and
consumption
of
drugs.
The
NCB
is
currently
probing
all
aspects
of
the
illegal
nexus
including
suppliers,
peddlers
and
also
consumers.