Kshitij Ravi Prasad, an ex-associate producer at Dharma Productions, was supposedly pressurized by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) to give an announcement against producer Karan Johar.
Satish Maneshinde, the legal counsellor speaking to Prasad, guaranteed that his customer was “harassed and blackmailed” to give an announcement in the Bollywood drugs test. Prasad was important for Dharmatic Entertainment (a sister firm of Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions) in November 2019.
Kshitij’s attorney has asserted that his customer was tortured by the NCB. He was supposedly approached to involve Karan Johar and some others related with Dharma Productions. Prasad said that the probe agency didn’t discover anything from his habitation and that he was being encircled.
Reports state that the NCB has disproved all the charges and said that it is a professional agency. NCB chief Rakesh Asthana has offered directions to his authorities that the test ought to be done in a way that it doesn’t make any sort of recognition that the test office is focusing on one specific individual or a specific group.
Former Dharma Productions employee was arrested by the apex drug law enforcement agency in a drugs-related case on September 26. A court sent Prasad to NCB custody till October 3 for further investigation.
Maneshinde guaranteed that the NCB discovered nothing from his customer’s home, aside from a cigarette butt, which the authorities accepted to be of a “ganja joint”. While sharing a note, Maneshinde asserted that Kshitij “reluctantly signed the announcement after almost 50 hours of cross-examination, humiliation, and torment”.
NCB had on September 25 interrogated Anubhav Chopra, who likewise was prior related with Dharma Productions.
In the midst of the drug controversy, Karan Johar delivered an announcement saying that Prasad was recruited at Dharmatic Entertainment in November 2019 as an executive producer for a project, which eventually did not materialise. Johar further said that Chopra worked with Dharma Productions as an assistant director and worked only on two projects.