The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai and its sub-region Goa arrested a South African nationwide Aegisilaos Demetriades (31) in North Goa after he was discovered allegedly in possession of “small quantity of hashish/charas”. The NCB stated in an announcement that Demetriades was arrested on Saturday from a residential advanced in Pernem in Goa’s northernmost taluka for “illegal possession of drug recovery”.
Last 12 months, the NCB had arrested Demetriades in two different circumstances beneath the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS). He was first arrested in June, 2020 in a drug case registered after the demise of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. He was granted bail by a particular court docket in November, 2020, whereas NCB re-arrested him in one other drug case through which Dharma Productions government producer Kshitij Prasad was arrested. Demetriades was launched on bail in December 2020.
Following his arrest on Saturday, Demetriades was produced in a court docket and remanded to judicial custody, the NCB stated.
Demetriades is the brother of South African mannequin Gabriella Demetriades, who’s the companion of actor Arjun Rampal. In an announcement launched on Saturday, Rampal, who’s presently filming in London, stated that neither he nor his companion had something to do with Demetriades’ arrest.
“As far as my family and I are concerned, my straight family and I are law abiding citizens. And while the incident involves a person who is a relative of my partner, I have no relation or relationship other than this person…. I believe in our legal system and whoever is on the wrong side of the law should be treated fairly as the judiciary. My trust is in the system in these matters,” Rampal stated in an announcement issued on Saturday.
NCB Sub Zone Goa additionally seized 12 LSD blots (business amount) and a small amount of MDMA/Ecstasy tablets from Siolim in North Goa earlier this week and arrested Nauman Sewri (22) and Sadiq Ahmed, residents of Sigolbhata, Chhattisgarh. Resident of Hyderabad for unlawful possession and prison conspiracy.
In one other operation, NCB Mumbai and Goa Sub Zone additionally seized “MDMA/Ecstasy tablets in intermediate quantity” from Nagoa in North Goa and arrested 22-year-old Mayur Mohanani, a resident of Ulhasnagar in Thane district of Maharashtra.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
