Karan Johar has refuted all charges of drug consumption at his party.
Mumbai:
Drugs were not consumed at a party hosted at his house last year, filmmaker Karan Johar has told the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in response to a notice issued by the agency, news agency PTI reported on Friday quoting officials.
The anti-drugs agency had issued the notice to Mr Johar over a viral video of the party where drugs were allegedly consumed, the official said.
“Johar was asked to give details of the party. Accordingly, the NCB on Friday received a reply from him to the notice,” he told PTI.
“In the reply, Johar maintained that no drug was consumed at the party,” the official added.
The NCB had received a complaint regarding the video of a party, which was attended by top Bollywood stars last year, he said.
The complaint was about movie stars apparently seen in a “drugged” state in the video.
Shiromani Akali Dal leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa had sent the video to the NCB and his complaint was marked to the agency’s Mumbai zonal unit, he said.
Mr Sirsa had claimed that he had registered a complaint about this video with the Mumbai police in August last year, but no probe was conducted.
After the video went viral, Mr Johar had issued a public statement in connection with that video, saying reports of drug consumption at his party were slanderous and malicious.
The central agency has been conducting an anti-drugs probe that began in connection with the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June this year.
