Mamta Kulkarni denies drug-running charges

Former Bollywood actress Mamta Kulkarni is an accused in a drug case. The actress who has worked with top actors in 1990s, had vanished from Bollywood scenario. Recently, her name cropped up on June 18 in the Rs 2000 crore ephedrine drugs haul case that was cracked by the Thane police in which her husband and business partner Vicky Goswami is a co-accused. The actress has now denied all allegations against her and said that she is innocent and a yogini.

In a videotaped conversation from Kenya, Mamta Kulkarni said, “I am a yogini (ascetic). I am engaged in spirituality and it effects by activities since the past 20 years. I am innocent of the accusations against me. I have never engaged in any act contrary to the principles of Indian statutes and am a victim of high-handedness, crude, an unprofessional and unethical conspiracy by the officers of the US’s Drug Enforcement Administration and the Thane police.”

The actress has written a letter to the External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju demanding a probe against the Maharashtra Police for dragging her name into the drugs case. She has also claimed that the investigators want her and Goswami to be extradited to the US from Kenya by all means, fair and foul, and were using her as a “pawn” in the case.

The Thane police has approached the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to get an InterPol Red Corner Notice issued against Kulkarni to facilitate her deportation from Kenya. But a battery of lawyers working for Kulkarni accused the police of resorting to all foul means in the investigations to encash on the beauty’s celebrity status.

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