In what could prove to be a major embarrassment for a leading news channel that flashed the\u00a0 names of Sara Ali Khan, Rakul Preet Singh and dress designer Simone Khambatta as those named by Rhea Chakraborty during her interrogation by the\u00a0 Narcotics Control Bureau<\/em>(NCB),\u00a0 Government sources that this writer spoke to, outright deny any such \u201cleaks\u201d to the channel.<\/p>\n Another news channel got even more inventive thereafter and mentioned the names of casting director Mukesh Chhabra and media manager Rohini Iyer in Rhea\u2019s drug confessions.<\/p>\n All false, it seems. Says the source very close to the Government, \u201cFirstly where are these leaks\u00a0 coming from? Secondly the NCB is strictly forbidden from divulging names. Thirdly, I can tell you the names given out as the ones mentioned by Ms Chakraborty are completely false. Ms Chakraborty has not mentioned any names, and certainly not the names mentioned\u00a0 by those two channels.\u201d<\/p>\n This source calls the \u2018name calling business\u2019 the Arnab Effect. \u201cSince Arnab\u2019s channel\u00a0 Republic is getting major TRPs with their non-stop Sushant-Rhea coverage the other channels, in their desperation to catch up are putting out hearsay and fantasy as news.\u201d<\/p>\n Do the channels that are throwing names from Bollywood into the viewers\u2019 face know how this kind of irresponsible name-calling affects the families of those that are arbitrarily named?<\/p>\n Earlier, NCB deputy-director KPS Malhotra was quoted as saying, “We have not prepared any Bollywood list. The list earlier prepared was of peddlers and traffickers. It\u2019s getting confused with Bollywood.”<\/p>\n![\"No](\"https:\/\/stat1.bollywoodhungama.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/No-Bollywood-Names-In-Narcotics-List-Say-Government-Sources.jpeg\" "\\"No")
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