The Bengaluru Central Crime Branch police has nabbed Aditya Alva, brother-in-law of Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi, within the Sandalwood drug case. Confirming the arrest to the media, Bengaluru Joint Police commissioner (Crime) Sandeep Patil mentioned that Aditya Alva, who was absconding for over 4 months, was arrested on Monday night time from Chennai. “We were involved in a continuous operation to arrest him. We received a tip-off that he was in Chennai after which a team arrested him,” he defined. Also Read – Crime Branch Sends Notice to Vivek Oberoi’s Wife Priyanka Alva in Sandalwood Drugs Racket Aditya, who’s the son of late Janata Party chief Jeevaraj Alva, is accused quantity six within the Sandalwood drug case and had been absconding for 4 months. According to CCB sources, Aditya was arrested from a resort positioned between Chennai and Mahabalipuram. CCB sources mentioned that the investigators had been monitoring cell phone places of individuals near Aditya and that that they had compiled a listing of individuals whom he was involved with repeatedly. Also Read – Search at Vivek Oberoi’s Mumbai Residence in Drugs Case After Brother-in-Law Aditya Alva Goes Absconding Sources claimed that CCB Inspector Puneet acquired data of his whereabouts after which an operation to arrest him was deliberate and carried out. CCB sleuths have introduced Aditya to Bengaluru and he’s presently being questioned on the CCB’s workplace in Chamarajpet in Bengaluru. Police sources mentioned that he could be produced earlier than the particular court docket in NDPS (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances) circumstances later within the day. Also Read – Sandalwood Drugs Case: Bengaluru Police Suspend ACP, Constable For Allegedly Leaking Crucial Information
Aditya has been accused of internet hosting events at his farmhouse in Hebbal in Bengaluru, and police suspect that banned and narcotic medication had been provided and consumed in the course of the events. CCB sources had earlier revealed that Aditya and one of many prime accused within the case, get together organiser Viren Khanna, had allegedly hosted events collectively. While Aditya is accused of offering area for the events at his resort House of Life in Hebbal, the CCB claimed that Viren Khanna was concerned in organising and driving high-profile individuals to those events. The CCB had earlier in September performed a search operation at his resort – House of Life – and his residence and seized a number of paperwork. On October 15, 2020, in the hunt for Aditya, the CCB had raided the home of his sister Priyanka Alva, who’s the spouse of Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi, in Mumbai. Subsequently, the police summoned her to seem earlier than them in Bengaluru in reference to this case. But Priyanka didn’t acknowledge the summons and didn’t seem earlier than the CCB.
CCB have additionally interrogated Ricky Rai, son of former underworld don and social activist Muthappa Rai, a day after his home was raided in Hebbal in northern Bengaluru. The CCB had performed raids at Rai’s farmhouse in Bidadi in Ramanagara district and his home in Sadashivanagar in Bengaluru. The police believed that Ricky had given asylum to Aditya and they also known as him over the whereabouts of the accused. The police additionally suspect Ricky Rai as he’s involved with a number of the accused within the Sandalwood drug case. Aditya was among the many 17 people who find themselves booked within the case through which actors Ragini Dwivedi and Sanjjanaa Galrani have been arrested. Three weeks in the past, the Supreme Court denied Aditya Alva’s plea to quash the FIR registered in opposition to him on the Cottonpet Police Station in reference to the drug case.
The apex court docket additionally denied Alva’s plea to obtain anticipatory bail. Aditya’s authorized counsel Nishanth Patil had earlier filed an anticipatory bail plea within the Karnataka High Court, which was additionally denied. The Kannada movie business has been underneath the scanner of the police for drug-related offences after the police and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) nabbed a world drug trafficking racket in multi-city raids in August 2020. The CCB police had issued a lookout discover for Aditya and two different accused who had been on the run since September 21. Aditya, as an alternative of looking for bail from the court docket, had approached the excessive court docket looking for the cancellation of the FIR lodged in opposition to him. The CCB has now efficiently nabbed Alva and Kannada movie producer Shivaprakash Chippi in a niche of simply two days whereas they’re but to nab Sheik Faazil – one other prime accused on this case who can also be mentioned to be on the run. He is suspected to be a hawala operator who was funnelling funds to a properly oiled drug provide chain for high-profile occasions.
The CCB claimed that they’ve visited Assam, West Bengal and Goa amongst different locations to seek for the accused who’re on the run. So far, the CCB has been in a position to collect digital proof in opposition to most of those accused. Meanwhile, the Enforcement Directorate can also be probing a cash laundering case in opposition to the accused individuals within the Sandalwood drug case. The ED sources mentioned that the actors had belongings price greater than they might have procured based mostly on their earnings. The ED informed the NDPS court docket in Bengaluru that it suspects the accused funneled cash procured by the distribution of medicine. (With inputs from IANS)