BENGALURU: Karnataka high court has stayed further proceedings against Telugu actor Kolla Hema in drug abuse case registered against her following a raid on a rave party in Bengaluru in May last year.
Allowing the interlocutory application filed by Hema seeking a stay on proceedings, high court observed the petitioner was chargesheeted for offences punishable under section 27(b) of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act only on the basis of confessional statement of a co-accused. “There is no corroborative material to substantiate the petitioner consumed MDMA at the rave party,” vacation judge Justice Hemant Chandanagoudar said in his interim order passed Tuesday.
Hema was arrested on June 3 last year by central crime branch after she failed to appear for investigation. She was charged with consumption of narcotic drugs, giving false names and phone numbers during the raid, prior knowledge about the banned substances at the rave party, and attempts to mislead investigation by making video statements.
