Deepika Padukone has been questioned by India’s narcotics agency as part of an investigation into the film industry following the death of the actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
The Bollywood star was among three actors summoned by the Narcotics Control Board (NCB) for questioning on Saturday.
The 34-year-old had received a summons earlier in the week while shooting a movie in the western beach resort of Goa and was questioned for several hours at NCB’s Mumbai office.
Meanwhile, the actors Shraddha Kapoor and Sara Ali Khan were questioned separately at another NCB office. None have been accused by the authorities of any wrongdoing. Details of the questioning were not immediately available.
The trio are among more than a dozen people working with the Hindi movie industry who have been summoned by the NCB in the past two weeks. Padukone’s manager, Karishma Prakash, was also questioned on Friday.
Earlier this week, TV channel TimesNow broadcast sections of a WhatsApp conversation about procuring hash, alleging that the two people chatting were Padukone and Prakash.
