Siddhanth Kapoor, the son of veteran actor Shakti Kapoor, was detained on Monday and discharged on station bail after medical findings proved his drug consumption. According to the police, the other four people apprehended were also freed on station bail. He was caught, according to authorities, while partying at a five-star hotel within the Halasuru police station’s jurisdiction.Siddhanth and the four others will have to appear before the police as and when they are required, as per the DCP East Bengaluru Bheema Shankar Gulled.
Siddhanth had been arrested earlier in the day by Bengaluru Police for reportedly consuming drugs at a gathering in the city on Sunday night. Bheemashankar S Guled, Bengaluru City Police’s Deputy Commissioner of Police (East), said, “Siddhanth Kapoor’s medical records reveal that he took drugs. Sidhant has already been detained by the police and everything js being carried on according to the protocols. DCP Guled revealed that n the basis of a tip, police stormed a hotel on MG Road in the city where a party was being held on Sunday night where they didn’t locate any drugs on 35 people who were suspected of consuming drugs but we they didi discover MDMA and ganja closely. The team will look through the CCTV footage to see who disposed it.
“Individuals who were suspected to have consumed drugs underwent a medical test and out of those 6 people tested positive for drugs and Sidhant was one lf those 6. The hotel has been notified, and we have asked particular questions, which they must respond to. The Bengaluru city police department has announced a narcotics war, and this was a part of it. We performed a raid earlier this month, and 34 people evaluated positive for drugs,” said DCP East. Post the arrest of Sidhant, a vedio got viral wherein he was seen playing DJ in the same party from where he got arrested.