Sandalwood drug scandal: Enforcement Directorate registers money laundering case

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case in the Sandalwood drug scandal case.

The federal agency will summon relevant documents from the Central Crime Branch (CCB) of Bengaluru, which is probing the drug menace in the Kannada film industry.

Film actresses Ragini Dwivedi and Sanjjanaa Galrani along with two more persons are already in police custody. A court on September 7, had extended police custody of Kannada film actress who was arrested under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act for another 5 days


The Central Crime Branch which is probing the drug abuse in the Kannada film industry, on September 8 had arrested actress Sanjjanaa Galrani.

Ragini Dwivedi is accused of supplying drugs to people at high-end parties in the city. Galrani was arrested at the end of a CCB raid at her Indira Nagar residence on Tuesday.

ED will probe the money laundering angle in the instant case.

According to CCB, Galrani was under its radar ever since her friend Rahul, a realtor, was booked in connection with the drug case, they added.

Sanjjanaa was born in Bengaluru. She made her film debut in a Tamil movie 'Oru Kadhal Seiveer' in 2006. She has acted in a Kannada movie 'Ganda Hendathi.