The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Friday detained a Dharma Productions executive producer for questioning in connection with an alleged drug nexus in Bollywood. Dharma Productions executive producer Kshitij Ravi Prasad has not been arrested as of now. He has been detained for questioning in connection with a drug probe, NCB sources said. Responding to the same, filmmaker and owner of Dharma Production Karan Johar late on Friday night denied the claims that Prasad is associated with the organisation. He said Prasad had joined Dharmatic Entertainment, a sister concern of Dharma productions, in November 2019 as one of the executive producers "on contract basis for a project which did not eventually materialise" while Anubhav Chopra, who was also questioned by the NCB, worked with them on projects for short durations between 2011 and 2013.

"I would like to state that several media/news channels have been airing news reports that Kshitij Prasad and Anubhav Chopra are my "aides"/"close aides". I would like to place on record that I do not know these individuals personally and neither of these two individuals are "aides" or "close aides"," Johar said in a statement. "Neither I nor Dharma Productions can be made responsible for what people do in their personal lives. These allegations do not pertain to Dharma Productions," he added.