Bengaluru:  Bengaluru police arrested Kannada actress Sanjjanaa Galrani on the allegations of illegal drug market and its alleged links with the Kannada film industry. According to the official sources Sanjjanaa was questioned in police custody on Tuesday.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Ashwath Narayan said to the media persons on Tuesday that “There are many verticals. Drug use and abuse has got no distinctions. All sections of society have gone into this. As a government it is our responsibility to ensure this menace is contained. Under the leadership of the Chief Minister, we are trying our best to break all kind of vertical supply chain, sources and users”.

Central Crime Branch of Bengaluru Police conducted searches at the Indiranagar home of Ms Galrani this morning by the after getting a search warrant from a court. She was taken to the office of the Central Crime Branch for questioning before her arrest. Sanjjanaa Galrani was under the radar of the crime branch ever since her friend Rahul, a realtor, was charged in connection with the drug case, said official sources. Six people have been arrested in the drugs case so far. The police questioned Ms Galrani based on the interrogation of a person named Nayaz on Monday.

The police had on Thursday arrested Ravi Shankar, who has links within the Kannada film industry, in connection with the drugs case and a court has sent him to police custody for five days. He is a clerk in the Road Transport Office. According to police, Viren Khanna is a big catch. “He (Khanna) is the main person who organises big parties where drugs are consumed. He was in Delhi and two CCB police inspectors had gone to Delhi and arrested him,” police officer Sandeep Patil had said last Friday.

“In the search at Viren Khanna’s house, along with other things, one fake ‘police’ uniform was found with belt, cap, shoes and no stars,” Patil said on Tuesday. She made her film debut in a Tamil movie “Oru Kadhal Seiveer” in 2006. She has also acted in the Kannada film “Ganda Hendathi”.