Ananya Panday was asked to appear before the NCB on Friday.
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Ananya Panday was questioned for nearly four hours in connection with her alleged WhatsApp chats with Aryan Khan, son of superstar Shah Rukh Khan, arrested in a drugs case, reports PTI quoting NCB sources.
This is the second straight day Panday appeared before the Narcotics Control Bureau.
Her actor-father Chunky Panday accompanied her to the NCB office located at Ballard Estate in South Mumbai. The 22-year-old actor, a new entrant in Bollywood who made her debut in 2019, reached around 2.20 pm and left the NCB office around 6.20 pm after questioning by the NCB, said the report quoting NCB sources.
Talking to the media, NCB Deputy Director General Ashok Mutha Jain said that he cannot share details related to the investigation when asked if the actor has spoken anything about the alleged WhatsApp chats with Aryan Khan. The NCB officer also said that he has no information when asked whether the investigation team got any information about drug peddlers during her questioning.
Jain informed that Ananya Panday has been called again on Monday to take the ongoing process further.
There was heavy deployment of police personnel at the NCB office, where barricades were put up as a large number of media persons had gathered outside.
The NCB is probing the cruise ship drugs case, in which Aryan Khan (23) has been arrested along with 19 others. Aryan Khan is in jail under judicial custody and his bail plea will be heard by the Bombay High Court on October 26.
During the investigation, the NCB had found some WhatsApp chats between Aryan Khan and Ananya Panday, the sources said.
The NCB officials wanted to gather more information about the chats and hence she was summoned on Thursday and questioned for around two hours. The NCB had seized Ananya Panday's laptop and mobile phone on Thursday.