Mumbai Mumbai Police has detained South African national Agisilos Demetriades, brother of Gabriella, girlfriend of Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal, accused in the drugs case involving late actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Officials gave this information here on Thursday. Demetriades was earlier arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in September 2021 in a drugs case. A team of Mumbai Police picked up Demetriades from Goa on Thursday. He will be brought to Mumbai and kept in Arthur Road Central Jail. Vikas dismissed his petition challenging the NCB’s action in the Bombay High Court, Goa Bench on March 28 and was subsequently dismissed by the Supreme Court on April 18.
The NCB had on September 21 last year arrested Demetriades for his alleged involvement in several cases under the NDPS Act under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988, under the Prevention of Illegal Traffic Act, causing a sensation. The agency said that the PITNDPS Act provides for orders of preventive detention against any person with the aim of preventing him from indulging in illegal smuggling of drugs.
Demetriades is facing three NCB cases- first related to Rajput drugs case of October 2020, second a cocaine smuggling case involving Nigerian cocaine and third case when he was caught with small quantity of charas from Goa, for which He spent two weeks in judicial custody. Demetriades was arrested by the NCB in October 2020 after it emerged that he was in contact with drug peddlers arrested in the Rajput case.
After this NCB raided Rampal’s house and summoned him and his girlfriend Gabriella for questioning in the case. At the time, Rampal had said that he was ‘shocked and shocked’. He had also said that it is unfortunate that his name is being dragged unnecessarily in the whole matter. He said, “My straight family and I am a law-abiding citizen. While there is a person involved in the incident who is a relative of my partner, I have no other relationship with this person.”
Rampal had urged the media not to make headlines using his name, as they were not related and it was causing misery and confusion to his own family and those with whom he had a professional relationship.