Two months after he was arrested in the Sushant Singh death-related drug case, a Special court here on Thursday granted a conditional bail to former executive of Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions Kshitij Ravi Prasad against a cash bond of Rs 50,000.
Special NDPS Court Judge G. B. Gurao ordered the release of Kshitij on furnishing a provisional cash bail of Rs.50,000 plus one or two sureties, to be furnished within a month.
However, Advocate Satish Maneshinde, who represented Kshitij, said that his client would not walk out of the jail, as he is named in another recent NDPS case which will come up for hearing on December 3.
As per the conditions imposed in his bail order, Kishitij will have to report to the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) office every Monday for an hour for the next six months, deposit his passport, not travel abroad without prior permission of the court, share his itinerary for any domestic travel, attend all court proceedings, refrain from tampering with any evidence or witnesses, etc.
Kshitij, it may be recalled, arrested on September 26, the NCB conducted raids at his Versova residence where marijuana was seized
Kshitij was named by an alleged peddler Ankush Arneja and actress Rakul Preet Singh in their statements to the NCB. Both have reportedly told investigators that Kshitij was supplying drugs to the people in Bollywood.
On his part, filmmaker Karan Johar swiftly distanced himself from both Kishitj and Anupam Chopra by issuing a statement to that effect.