Fear is spreading through Bollywood as 13 big names are reportedly in the list of “celeb buyers” that the Anti-Narcotics Cell of the Mumbai Police’s Crime Branch got from drug dealer Bakul Chanderia who was arrested on December 12. Bakul’s interrogation has resulted in a long list of clients from the film industry to who he was regularly supplying drugs. Among them is the brother-in-law of an actor and director who recently went through a messy divorce and was accused of usurping all his ex-wife’s property. He and another Bollywood personality have already been interrogated over several hours by the police on their alleged involvement with Bakul’s drug syndicate.

In a startling revelation, Bakul also admitted that some members of the Mumbai Police are involved in his drug dealings. These policemen are mostly those from the Security & Protection Branch on bodyguard duty with some film stars. It is suspected that these police bodyguards used to collect the drugs from Bakul on behalf of the stars they were protecting. The Anti-Narcotics Cell cops are making a list of these suspect cops and their names will be given to the Mumbai Police and Home Department of the Maharashtra government.

Bakul also indicated that some officers of the Crime Branch were hand-in-glove with him in the drug business. These particular elite cops used to assist Bakul in collecting his drugs once they arrived from South Africa and delivering the consignment to his home. The notorious drug lord shocked the Anti-Narcotics Cell by revealing that on several occasions he even got his drugs consignment safely delivered in the official police vehicles of these Crime Branch officers.

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In the course of its investigation, the Anti-Narcotics Cell busted Khar police constable Vikas Ghoderao who was found in some videos and photographs partying with Bakul. Ghoderao, who also went by the alias Vicky, used to patrol the Khar locality from which Bakul ran his drugs empire. The Anti-Narcotics Cell suspects that he is closely associated with Bakul looking at how friendly the constable appears in the videos and photographs with the drug dealer.

Bakul’s modus operandi was also to run a YouTube channel on which he allegedly took down orders for drugs from his celeb clients. What he did was upload the kind of music that is played at Mumbai’s rave parties. His clients would go on YouTube and check the music on Bakul’s channel and then place their drug requirements in the “Comments” box of the drug dealer’s posts using code words. The details of this operation too are with the Anti-Narcotics Cell. Right now, some big actors in Bollywood are waiting apprehensively for the police’s knock.