Kochi, April 25
Two days after Malayalam actors Shine Tom Chacko and Sreenath Bhasi were summoned, the Kerala Excise Department on Friday issued summons to three more people asking them to appear for questioning.
The move follows the arrest of Tasleem Sultana and one of her accomplices from a resort near Alappuzha on April 1, after a tip-off.
The operation resulted in the seizure of hybrid ganja worth approximately Rs 2 crore in the open market.
Later, the Excise officials arrested one more person who is closely associated with Sultana.
The names of the three have been withheld as, at the moment, there is a lack of evidence against them, but what has surfaced is that they had frequent interactions with Sultana.
The three include a Kochi-based female model, a person who has close links with the Malayalam film industry and another man who was a participant in a popular reality show.
Even though the Excise officials are pursuing the case regarding matters connected to drugs, during the interrogation of the three arrested, they have stumbled on evidence with regards to gold smuggling and even an alleged sex racket.
This evidence, which the Excise got, will soon be transferred to the Kerala Police.