SIT questions Tanish in Tollywood drug case and to question Nandu on Tuesday

Hyderabad: Telugu actor Tanish Alladi arrives to appear before Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with Hyderabad drug racket case; in Hyderabad on July 31, 2017. (Photo: IANS)

Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been examining a Hyderabad drug racket today the team has questioned Telugu movie actor Tanish Alladi for about 4 hours and another actor Nandu will be questioned on Tuesday. Tanish reached at the Excise Department office at 10 a.m in the morning and questioning started at 10.30 a.m. which continued till 4 hours.The officials at SIT questioned Tanish about his consumption of drugs and his links with peddlers.

The actor conveyed to the reporters that while interrogation he answered all the questions of SIT officials. He also mentioned that his family members were shocked to know about his name coming up in the case. He insured he will be helping SIT to root out the risk of drugs. SIT questioned two other people Akhil Chaudhary and Nirupama Reddy on Monday.

Tanish is the tenth Tollywood actor to be interrogated by the SIT officials after top actors like Charmme Kaur, Ravi Teja, Puri Jagannadh, Tarun, Mumaith Khan, Subbaraju and Navdeep. Srinivasa Rao driver of Teja was interrogated last week by SIT after the actor was questioned for 9 hours. SIT said they will interrogate actor Ananda Krishna and will appear before SIT on Tuesday. All the names had come up during the investigation when SIT found their contact numbers in the call data of Calvin Mascrenhas.

Certain members of Tollywood alleged that they are being unfairly targeted, but Telangana government denied it. CM K. Chandrasekhar Rao had assured the Tollywood industry that those using drugs would be treated as victims and not as accused but sought their help in identifying the peddlers.