{"id":328888,"date":"2020-11-23T10:41:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T10:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328888"},"modified":"2020-11-23T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T10:41:14","slug":"drug-case-comedian-bharti-singh-husband-granted-bail-by-mumbai-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/drug-case-comedian-bharti-singh-husband-granted-bail-by-mumbai-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Case: Comedian Bharti Singh, husband granted bail by Mumbai Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-328842 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/bharti-singh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/bharti-singh.jpg 625w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/bharti-singh-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/bharti-singh-492x420.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/>Comedian Bharti Singh and her husband Harsh Limbachiya, who were arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) over alleged possession and use of cannabis were granted bail by a Mumbai court on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh and her husband were produced before a magistrate\u2019s court on Sunday by the NCB after which they were sent to 14-day judicial custody.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The couple filed bail pleas soon after being remanded to judicial custody.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Saturday, Bharti Singh\u00a0and her husband were taken for questioning after the anti-narcotic agency recovered a \u2018small quantity of cannabis\u2019 during raid at their Mumbai residence. Later in the day, they both were arrested by NCB.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh\u2019s name had cropped up during the interrogation of a drug peddler. The agency also carried out searches at two other locations, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The NCB\u2019s Bollywood drugs angle probe was launched after the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput at his Bandra home on June 14. Numerous prominent personalities have been either questioned, arrested or raided.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Bharti Singh and her husband Harsh Limbachiya, who were arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) over alleged possession and use of cannabis were granted bail by a Mumbai court on Monday. Singh and her husband were produced before a magistrate\u2019s court on Sunday by the NCB after which they were sent to 14-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":328842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[13719,13720,13721],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328889,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328888\/revisions\/328889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}